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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 a gallbladder Pterygium cap deformity?
There is a Phrygian cap, a folded over part of a gall bladder. It is a harmless variant that is seen in a small percent of people who have ultrasound exams of their gall bladders.
Digestion or respiration which occurs first in your body?
Depends what you mean by respiration? But generally both of these things can occur simultaneously in the body.
For cellular respiration, glucose (or other sugars)either complex or simple ingested into your body are broken down by your digestive system where there are absorbed by the villi in your gastrointestinal tract, once absorbed into the cytosol, the glucose molecule is broken down into two pyruvate molecules, these molecules are then transferred using a bridging reaction into the mitochondria, after this occurs oxidative phosphorylation acts and yields 34 ATP's per molecule of glucose.
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What is the name for the substances that speed up digestion?
Anything, in the digestive system or in other systems, that speed up reactions are called enzymes.
What is the name of the wavelike constructions that propel food along the gut?
The wavelike contractions that propel food along the gut are called peristalsis. This process involves rhythmic, coordinated muscle contractions in the digestive tract, pushing food through the esophagus, stomach, and intestines. Peristalsis is crucial for the proper movement and digestion of food.
What is the function of digestive enzymes?
Digestive enzymes break complex molecules into simpler ones that can be absorbed by cells.
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Where is bile made and what does it do?
Bile is made in the liver and its job is to break down fat particles.
Where can you find a list of food pantries in Arkansas?
See the web link to the left for information.
What slows down chyme so it can enter the large intestines for three days?
the answer is PERISTALSIS...
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What is the enzyme produced in mouth?
Salivary amylase is produced in the mouth so that it can digest carbohydrate
The diaphragm is the membrane separating the respiratory organs from theorgans of the digestive system. It lies between the lungs and the stomach.
How does tums help with indigestion or heartburn?
Why do TUMS help you when you have heartburn? Heartburn is caused by an excessive amount of hydrochloric acid in your stomach. It helps because the reactant calcium carbonate is a base while hydrochloric acid is an acid. Calcium carbonate neutralizes the hydrochloric acid, when they react a salt is produced. When any carbonate and acid react carbon dioxide is released. The last product that was produced was water. Salt, carbon dioxide, and water do not irritate your stomach.
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i won't dgest the starch, since it's not on its optimal conditions....
Do minerals vitamins and water need to be digested?
No, minerals, vitamins and water do not need to be digested. The foods that contain them need to be. However, minerals, vitamins and water need to be absorbed by the body into the bloodstream.
How long does it take to pass a swallowed foreign object?
That depends on whether you are talking food or not.
If you've swallowed an object that is not food, it may take 3 to 5 days to pass, if it doesn't get stuck.
If you're talking food, in a healthy adult, it normally takes 24 to 72 hours to digest and eliminate.
Can a 17 year old die from a burst appendix?
Yes, anyone can regardless of age. The appendix bursting means the pus get into the rest of the stomach and will eventually turn things gangrene and give you blood poisoning.
Do saliva work to break down starch into proteins?
It breaks it down and turns it into sugars, and that is why, if you chew starchy foods for long enough, they start to get sweeter.
What will happen if digestive system and circulatory system after eating a meal?
Circulation to the digestive system increases to help the body digest food.
How you constantly keep farting?
well, if your legit farting, it helps if you sit in a chair with your *** firmly planted on the chair and it will make a loud knocking sound which created the term 'fart knocker' lol i know, weird >.>. and i don't think you can spontanieously make yourself fart by will unless by blowing into your elbow, which isn't legit fart, but equally hilarious.
What is a large abscess in the sigmoid colon and how is it treated?
An abscess is an infected site with pus. It is treated with antibiotics. The sigmoid colon is the part where it curves around in an S shape.
