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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 is the main excretory organ in a fetal pig?
The main excretory organ in a fetal pig are the kidneys. The kidneys are responsible for maintaining water levels and excreting waste matter from the blood.
Are there drinks to by to help the digestive system?
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What type of bacteria attacks and digests dead tissue?
Bacteria that attack and digest dead tissue are called prime decomposers or decomposing bacteria. As digesting as it sounds, decomposing bacteria are a healthy and much needed part of the food web.
What types of food digest slowest?
Yes, carbohydrates digest more quickly than proteins and fats. Fruits and vegetables are digested even faster since they contain mostly water. Fresher = faster, fattier/heavier = slower.
Difference between physical digestion and chemical digestion?
Physical (also called mechanical) digestion is when you use your teeth to mash up food. You are physically breaking the food into smaller pieces. However, chemical digestion would be what your saliva or stomach acids are doing. They are breaking down the food and transferring different parts of it (such as lipids etc.) to the different parts of your body that need it.
Fun facts about the digestive system?
Digestive System Function Facts
We eat about 500kg of food per year. 1.7 liters of saliva is produced each day.
The esophagus is approximately 25cm long. Muscles contract in waves to move the food down the esophagus. This means that food would get to a person's stomach, even if they were standing on their head.
An adults stomach can hold approximately 1.5 liters of material.
Every day 11.5 liters of digested food, liquids and digestive juices flow through the digestive system, but only 100mls is lost in faces.
In the mouth, food is either cooled or warmed to a more suitable temperature.
Hundreds of different kinds of enzymes are needed to properly digest food. Cooking destroys food enzymes, forcing the body to make its own. Over time the body may tire of this extra work, leaving room for possible indigestion.
STOMACH: secretes some enzymes and hydrochloric acid (HCL) to break down protein. Within 2-6 hours, all food is emptied into the small intestine.
SMALL INTESTINE: over 90 percent of digestion and absorption takes place in the small intestine. The acid of the stomach is neutralized and food is mixed with enzymes, bile and pancreatic juices.
LIVER: aids in digestion and detoxification of food impurities and inspects nutrients before allowing them into the bloodstream.
GALL BLADDER: stores bile used to break down dietary fat.
PANCREAS: produces digestive juices and helps control blood sugar.
Digestive problems cost Americans $50 billion each year in both direct costs and absence from work.
70-year-olds may produce as little as half the enzymes they produced when they were 20.
By age 50, many people will produce only 15% of the HCL they released at age 25, and about a third of all people over the age of 65 secrete Digestive System1. For every 2 weeks, the human stomach produces a new layer of mucous lining, otherwise the stomach will digest itself.
2. The human liver performs 500 different functions.
3. Liver is the largest and heaviest internal organ of the body and weighs about 1.6 kilos.
4. The Liver is the only organ of the body, which has the capacity to regenerate itself completely even after being removed almost completely.
5. Liver cells take several years to replace themselves.
6. A healthy liver processes 720 liters of blood per day.
7. The human stomach contains about 35 million small digestive glands.
8. The human stomach produces about 2.5 liters of gastric juice everyday.
9. In an average person, it takes 8 seconds for food to travel down the food pipe, 3-5 hours in small intestine and 3-4 days in the large intestine.
10. The human body takes 6 hours to digest a high fat meal and takes 2 hours for a carbohydrate meal
THIS IS VERY INTERESTING, AGREED?How do you get rid of bad gas?
Find out what's giving you the gas. For many it's lactose intolerance, meaning that you can't handle milk sugar. It can be beans, potatoes, even sweet potatoes. If you modify your diet to eliminate the stuff that's causing gas, the pain should go away. If not, contact your doctor.
What happens to food after it enters the body?
Along the way food passes through accessory digestive organs such as the liver, gallbladder, etc.
The small intestine absorbs nutrients, the main function of the large intestine is to absorb water. The large intestine also contains bacteria, called intestinal flora, to digest undigested food.
Which of these is first step in chemical digestion?
The first step in the mechanical digestion of food is chewing which is done by teeth to increase the surface area of food because the enzyme amylase need to mix with food to produce maltose.This process doesn`t get much time because most of the people dont chew the for longer time and swallow it quickly.
Which type of digestion takes place in your esophagus?
in the esophagus or well known as the gullet are muscles align on each side to move it towards the stomach.anything else just search nur dini on facebook to ask for anymore qns or you just wanna add me. BYE!!
What is the path food takes through the digestive system?
Starts with the mouth. Mastication (chewing) takes place. The teeth help with the mastication. The tongue pushes food down the throat. Salivary glands help break down the food. Pepsin breaks down the protein. Degluition (swallowing) takes place. Food goes down the pharynx, or throat. Goes down the esophagus, where peristalsis takes place. The cardiac sphincter released the food down to the stomach. Passes the appendix on thw way. Hydrochloric Acid is in the stomach. Pyloric sphincter released it down to the small intestine. Liver
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The gastrointestinal tract, assuming you do it right.
the process in which food travels through the body is first the mouth in the mouth the food will be chewed into little tiny peices. then thriiugh the thriat
What is the scientific name for digestive system?
The correct name for the digestive system is the gastrointestinal system. The term digestive leads you to believe that digestion is the only process covered in the system which is misleading. The entire gastrointestinal (or digestive) system includes ingestion, digestion, absorption, and egestion.
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Dextrose works for me in my son. Sweet tarts pixie sticksand and Smarties all contain dextrose without fructose. We seem to be fructose intolerant and the intestinal bacteria that like the fructose we can't digest flourish in our guts and make suffer gas. Dextrose helps balance the other bacterias that keep the stinky guys in line. Try it?
Where the digestion of food begin?
Digestion begins in the mouth. Mechanical digestion begins with the chewing of food. Chemical digestion also begins in the mouth with the enzymes been produced and used to break down the food.
Where in the human body will chemical digestion begin?
Digestion begins in the mouth. Saliva begins the breakdown of food, and the teeth and tongue masticate the food to prepare it for passage through the esophagus and further digestion in the stomach.
What happens when your diaphram goes into spasms?
You hiccough (hiccup).
You have a case of the hiccups.
Hiccoughs is one answer to this. Usually of no consequence and self limiting.
Is amenable to medical treatment if it is endangering.
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The hiccups... I think...
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Sometimes body organs spasm and cause weird reactions. Hiccups are the result that occurs when a persons diaphragm starts to spasm.
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phrenic nerve stimulation
What is the medical term meaning difficult digestion?
Dysphagia is the medical term for difficulty swallowing.
What connects the mouth to the esophagus?
The Esophagus is the long smoothe muscle tube that connects the Pharynx to the Stomach. It runs down the posterios of the Thorax (chest) until it reached the diaphragm where it passes through and joins imediately to the stomach. It is joied via a short section of the same tube called the Cardius. Within this section is the Cardial Sphincter which is present to stop acid from the stomach traveling back up into the esophagus.
What are some common ailments of the Excretory System?
- It is usually form when form when there is a decrease in urine volume of formed when salts solidify out of the newly formed urine and accumulate in the kidneys. The salts are made of calcium salts or uric acid. Some causes of kidney stonesare infection, dehydration and excessive salt intake. Kidney stones include flank pain, may cause fever, chills, and frequent urination.
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).
- It is a common problem of the urinary system.
- It is a bacterial infection that affects the urinary tract.
- Having UTI, the person experiences frequent painful urination which may be accompanied by fever and lower abdominal pains. The urine is often cloudy and has foul odor.
Acne.
- Is a kind of skin disorder.
- It occurs when the oil glands in the skin are affected by bacteria. The oil glands produce oil called sebum, which comes out into the pores. The skin becomes soft through the help of sebum. If the pores are blocked by dirt, an infection occurs inside the oil glands. Acne may usually starts during puberty, the hormones trigger the oil glands to produce more sebum.
Boils.
- Is a kind of skin infection of the sweat glands causing bacteria. It is painful lump on the skin. It will grow bigger and a yellow head forms after three days. The boil must be burst and the pus must be removed from it before it heals. You can use/take antibiotics for treating boils.
Burns.
- It is damage to the skin caused by cold, heat, radiation, or by chemicals.
- Burns degree : (1) First-degree burns - a patch of red on the skin, it heals without scar. Ex. Sunburn (2) Second-degree burns are deep and may cause the skin to blister. (3) Third-degree burns damage the skin and the muscle tissues. They leave a scar on the skin. Immediate medical help should be given to people especially with large, deep burns.
Scabies.
- It is a contagious skin disease caused by tiny mites that burrow under the skin. This causes the skin to break out in a red, pimply rash with a burning itch. Scabies usually infect the hands and the area around the sexual organs. Thescabies mite can easily be transferred by touching an infected person. Apply lotion by treating scabies in order to kill the mites on the infected area.
Athlete's Foot.
- A fungal infection of the skin. It often occurs between the toes. Swelling, and itching of the skin. Athlete's foot may be treated by applying lotions, ointments, or powders in the infected areas. It can also be prevented by keeping the skin between the toes dry and clean.
Is teeth grinding food a mechanical digestion or a chemical digestion?
Mechanical, of course.. If you experience your saliva deteriorating your food any time soon, let me know.
Actually, saliva is there to help break down carbohydrates. The teeth in the mouth also digest food mechanically. In other words, the mouth uses both chemical and mechanical digestion to break down food.
