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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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Where majority of nutrient absorption of the digestive system occurs?

Most of the nutrients in food are taken into the bloodstream by the second part of the small intestine, known as the jejenum. Whatever is leftover is absorbed into the large intestine before excretion.

Is our mouth part of the digestive system?

The pancreas is a gland organ that is part of the digestive and endocrine system. It is responsible for producing hormones such as glucagon and insulin. The pancreas also secretes digestive enzymes that pass to the small intestines.

How do you no when your appendix going to burst?

No one can tell when exactly the appendix will burst. It first has to be inflamed. This will usually cause pain, possibly nausea/vomiting, and fever. The pain will be located on the right side of your body, above your pubic bone and below your belly button. If you are having these symptoms, you should absolutely go to the hospital. They will run tests to make sure that you have appendicitis. If it does burst, you run the risk of getting peritonitis, which happens when all the nasty infected contents of the appendix leak out into the stomach cavity. This is extremely serious, and can be fatal. Most likely you will know when this happens, but one of the classic symptoms is a really hard stomach.

What is the function of Colon of the digestive system?

PUNCTUATION MARK

The colon is used to introduce a set of things when listing, or to attach an attribution to a title.

ANATOMICAL ORGAN

The colon is the large intestine, or just the final section connected to the anus. In the colon, water is removed from digestive waste in preparation for its discharge as fecal matter.

What is each function of the six basic nutrients needed by the body?

The six nutrients are proteins, water, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins. Proteins, carbohydrates, and fats provide energy. Proteins form important parts of the body's main structural components and have a major role in building and repair. Carbohydrates are the body's preferred source of energy. Fats(lipids), in addition to providing the most concentrated form of energy, play a role in the storage and transportation of fat soluble vitamins. Minerals and vitamins regulate body functions.

Is the bladder a part of the digestive system?

The urethra is part of the urinary system. In females and males, the urethra carries urine from the bladder out of the body through the urinary meatus. In males, the urethra also carries ejaculate out of the body.

How does the mouth work with other systems to keep the human body healthy?

Skin helps to keep your body healthy by producing white blood cells that help your immune system, works with your nerve endings to keep you from getting hurt, and holds all of your body parts together.

What are 2 tissues that make up the digestive system?

Well, first of all, there are your mouth and teeth, which help to chew the food and grind it up into small pieces. It then goes into your esophagus, down your throat, and passes into the stomach, where it is compressed into smaller pieces. Later, it is transferred into the small intestine, then the large intestine, and out. So, to answer your question, the main organs are the mouth/teeth, the esophagus, the stomach, and the large and small intestine.

What are the major job of the digestive and excretory system?

getting out all of the bodies waste.

if there is ever any unused nutrients in the excretory system i believe it goes into your blood stream but im not quite sure about that?

anyway the waste from your body is turned intoo what we call poo.

What is the elimination of undigested material from the digestive tract called?

Defecation or elimination is the process of removing undigested food (feces) from the body.

What causes digestive problems?

foods that you eat, medicines that you take and stress can all contribute to having gastric diseases. eating oily, acid producing, burnt foods or skipping meals can cause various gastric diseases. the methods of taking medicines also affects the GI system. some medicines are best taken with food, and some without food. stress alters your bowel movement.

What is the best position to digest food standing up or sitting down?

No, its actually better to stand up and eat then sit/lie and eat. If you standing up then your food digest quicker and safer. If your sat down or lieing down , because your bent over the food takes a while to digest and can sometimes digest wrong. Hope this helped. By the way my elder brothers a doctor..!! :D

What happens in the anus?

When you eat, the food passes through your entire digestive tract. The body extracts nutrients from the food you eat. Food is first transformed into chyme and later into fecal matter. The anus is where fecal matter exits the body.

In the rectum are two bands of muscles called sphincters. While the body has sphincters in a number of places, including the eyes, the sphincters in question here are the sphincter complexes of the rectum. When you have to defecate, these two bands of muscles are used to push the stool out the anus. Otherwise, these muscles close off the rectum and help protect it.

What is erythematous mucosa of the sigmoid colon?

Mucosa is the lining of cavities that are exposed to the outside environment, such as the nasal cavities, and internal organs. Antrum is a general term for a cavity or chamber which may have specific meaning in reference to certain organs or sites in the body. Erythematous means unnaturally reddened.

So, erythematous mucosa in the antrum means that the lining at a site in your body is unnaturally reddened.

What are the similarities between the small intestine and a vacuole?

they're both in your body, they're both intestines they both absorb nutrients and water

Anatomy of digestive system of donkey?

The anatomy of the digestive system of the donkey is quite complex. This system is actually very similar to a humans.

Is there any complete index to all articles published in Reader's Digest?

There could be right on their site http://www.rd.com/?channelId=&, but since I am not sure which article you are looking for, I can't tell for sure. I looked up a topic, and it seemed to come up with articles pretty readily, so you might want to search there. There is an index online for the Canadian version of Reader's Digest (if the same articles are shared sometimes, it might be there), and there has to be an index somewhere that can be used by librarians for periodicals... so if you can't find the article on their site, you could go to a local library and see if you can find it in the periodical index. If all of those things fail, you could also ask a librarian, since they have more resources than the average person at their fingertips. :)

What is the difference between a planarian and earthworm's digestive system?

Earthworms belong to phylum Annelida, they are tube structured organisms living in soil. They have segmented body.

Sponges belong to phylum Porifera, they are marine dwellers and they are sessile organisms found in beautiful colours in ocean floor.

Can you eat human feces?

Yes you can. Poop comes In a variety of flavors and Is very good for you If

the source Is healthy.

Function of mouth in respiratory system?

The mouth is one of the main entry points for respiration. Oxygen enters the system here, and carbon dioxide exits.

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The mouth is associated with the digestive system. It does not form an essential part of the respiratory system.

How is an enzyme produced?

Most enzymes are proteins (linear chains of amino acids that fold to produce a three-dimensional

product), some catalytic RNA molecules (like Ribosome) have been identified. They are produced in cells resulting the transcription of mRNA. mRNA contains information needed to synthesize proteins

Microbial enzymes (amylase, beta glucanase, hemicellulase, protease...) are manufactured by growing the microbial cells under specialized conditions.