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Digestive System
Digestive System is the category for questions regarding the breakdown and absorption of food-stuffs in our alimentary canal. Questions about the stomach and intestines can be included in this category.
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What disease can cause damage to the digestive system?
Jaundice, gastic ulcer are some of the diseases that affect the digestive system. Jaundice is a water born disease which affects the lever and disgestive system. Complete rest,avoiding rich oil food, proper medication are the remedial measures. Whereas gastic ulcar may cause from rich fast food, excessive drinking which completely damages the lever vis a vis the digestive system.Avoid oily and fatty food,minimizing drink level and proper medicine helps to contain gastic ulcer.
What is erythematous mucosa in the atrium?
Shows there is irritation of the stomach lining.
May be due to drugs (NSAIDs), Helicobacter pylori bacterial infection, smoking, alcohol, spicy foods, stress or a number of other medical causes.
Depending on the cause, your doctor might treat you with acid suppressing medications including omeprazole/lansoprazole/pantoprazole, ranitidine/cimetidine and perhaps some antibiotics if you have a bacterial infection.
What is the difference between alimentary canal and digestive system?
the digestive tract refers to the GI or the gastrointestinal tract, which runs from the mouth to the anus. The digestive system refers to the organs related to the digestion of contents that are ingested, and how the foods are digested both mechanically and chemically.
Which is longer the smaller intestine or the large intestine?
The small intestine is considerably longer than the large intestine, but the large intestine is wider in diameter, from which it derives its name.
Yes. It is smaller in diameter than the large intestine but much longer.
The small intestine is longer than the large intestine but it is called small intestine because its diameter is smaller than that of the large intestine.
What are some indigestible waste products found in the large intestine?
cerebral spinal fluid, happens in the small instestine which follows it to the cecum, where the large instestine secretes, roasted insulin by products, where they use enzymes and antacids to break down the food.
What takes place as food goes through the digestive system?
What happens is after you have chewed up all your food it will go down your gullet to your stomach where the food is broken down physically and has acids adds to it. Past your pancreas some of the food will go into one of your intestines (we have two) then into your blood as the rest will go to your other intestine and then down the toilet.
How do you get rid of a stomache ache fast?
you should get medicine for stomachs cramps or just get medicine for your body. if that medicine sees wats happing it will fix it i prmise you can buy it in wallgreens or rideaid
What substances are released into the small intestine to help in digestion?
Bile is released from the liver to help emulsify fats, and pancreatic juice is released from the pancreas. This is a mixture of bicarbonate, to neutralise stomach acid and enzymes to catalyse the breakdown of nutrients in food. These enzymes include proteases, both active and inactive, amylase and lipase.
What liquids are in the stomach?
The chyme, also known as Chymus, is the liquid substance found in the stomach before passing through the pyloric valve and entering the duodenum.
What structure stores bile and during digestion secreted into the intestines?
Bile is produced in the liver and stored and concentrated in the gallbladder, then transported to the duodenum via the bile duct when needed.
The bile salts break down fats (called gall) via emulsification, which enlarges the surface area of the fats, and allows for more efficient digestion of lipids by enzymes in the duodenum.
Bile is a sticky semi-thick substance that is dark in color. It is a bitter, alkaline, brown/yellow/green fluid. It is an alkaline liuid composed mostly of water, bile salts, bile pigments (bilirubin, from the breakdown of hemoglobin), fats, and cholesterol.
Presuming that we are referencing a HEALTHY HUMAN BEING (post infancy) then: BILE is PRODUCED & SECRETED by the LIVER and EXCESS amounts will be STORED in the GALL BLADDER the liver The liver. It's then stored by the gallbladder. stomach
Bile is made by the liver and stored and released into the intestine in response to dietary fat by the gall bladder.
Why is the anus important to the digestive system?
It is a passage which fecal matter passes through, thus making it essential.
The rectum can also be used for sexual pleasure which is important to many lovers.
What is the chief bile pigment?
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What body system works with the circulatory systems?
The circulatory digestive and nervous systems all work together to get essential materials to the cells of the body by having the stomach produce acids that break down food. The dissolved food enters the liver where it is filtered. From there the good items enter the blood stream to be circulated throughout the body. The bad items enter the intestines where they travel to places to be expelled from the body.
The acids in your stomach are a natural part of digestion, but if they reflux out of the stomach and into the esophagus, "indigestion" may occur. This process is just one cause of what is commonly called "indigestion."
What is the purpose of chemical digestion?
The purpose of chemical digestion is to mainly break down the molecules of food which are too big to physically break down such as protiens, fats, vitamins, minerals and soluable fibres via the use or hydrochlorice acid, bile and pancreatic fluid, which should be small enough to absorb through the walls of the small intestines through the villus which have a cell wall of one cell thick, connecting to the capilliaries which takes this to the liver via the heptic portal.
What causes pH of the stomach?
the digestive system produces a hydrochloric acid medium for the action of pepsin without which it would be impossible to digest proteins. this hydrochloric acid emission causes the pH of the stomach.
Twenty to thirty minutes, depending on stomach contents.
What does sucrose yield when digested?
Sucrose is broken down into glucose and fructose by the enzyme sucrase.
How do animals get and digest food?
Insects have a complete digestive system this means food is procesed in a tube like enclosure, called the alimentary canal.
When an insect eats saliva is being mix with the food. This is the first step off digesting. Next the food comes to the foregut, here you find int.al. the crop where food is stored until it can be processed futher. In some insects the crop end in the so called proventriculus where dentricles can grind the food
Now the food reaches the midgut. Here enzyms are secreted and water and nutrients are absorbed. The hindgut is the last part of the digestive system in this part most of the water is absorbed (90%).
What are substances not absorbed into the bloodstream from the digestive system?
amino acids glucose fatty acids n glycerol or absorbed in to the blood in the ileum
Does honey cause stomach ache?
I believe it does for me. I get really bad cramps/pain in my upper abdomen. It comes on several hours after ingestion and lasts 8 hours or more! Very painful to the point that I can't sleep all night when I've had honey in the evening. It takes less than a Tbsp. and is the same with raw and regular organic honey. I've also heard that people can get swollen lips from contact. Honey allergy/sensitivity isn't common, but you can find some anecdotal evidence online.
