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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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Most organs of the digestive tract are held in place by a stretchable membrane called the?
peritoneum
What is a example of a chemical change in the digestive system?
protein to aminoacids -> aminoacids to carbohydrates
Where do people go to the bathroom on a submarine?
On military vessels, the bathroom is called "the head". It is usually a tiny room large enough for one person and only with a toilet and sink. The shower is a separate tiny cell.
What two processes of digestion begins in the mouth how do they differ?
Salivary Amylase helps digest starch while in the mouth as a chemical digestion. Chewing is another form of digestion, but its mechanical
Where is the pylori sphincter?
The English name is pyloric sphincter (i.e. pylori has a c at the end). The Latin is sphincter pylori. This is a sphincter muscle at the lower end of the stomach controlling the amount of food being released into the duodenum.
How is the muscular system involved in digestion?
When food is ingested in the mouth, it is propelled towards the stomach then to intestines and to the anus by peristaltic movement of the muscles.
Without muscles, digestion will take couple of days to occur.
Food is propelled slowly through small and big intestine as most of the absorption of food occurs here.
Can you have a operation for a hernia with barrett esophagus?
Yes. As a result of long time GERD I had Barret and I had the surgery in 1999. Through the surgical procedure called Laparoscopic Fundoplication I fixed my LES and Hiatal Hernia. Before surgery I had Laser treatment on Barret which reduced it to almost nothing. I feel excellent ever since. Gastrointestinal specialist is the first good step for more info. Good luck.
What is the function of lingual and gastric lipases?
Digestion of Lipids in the stomach, they're significant in infants and neonates, because it has the ability to penetrate the milk fat globule, but they're less important in adults
What are two mechanisms that control motility and secretion of the digestive system?
peristalsis and segmentation
What is the relationship between the surface area of the small intestine and the digestion of food?
I've heard that there are little hair like things that suck the nutrients out of the food inside the intestines. They are called villi. They are finger like structures that collect all the nutrients that have been collected before entering the small intestine!
Why do babies form in the mom's stomach?
Right area, wrong organ: babies grow in the uterus.
It's close to everything: for conception, maintenance, growth and development, and for birth: heart, stomach, digestive system, etc. are close by. It's convenient for carriage, easy to protect, easy to control the temperature, easily expands for the growing need for space.
Is human being stomach is made to digest raw meat?
The human digestive system can digest raw meat, but you have will get E coli and you will die from it if you have too much.
If the meat is totally raw you will die, if its under-cooked you have a high chance of dying
Can you have feces come from your penis?
YES ! I have a fistula and feces comes from my pecker whenever I have diarrhea
Why should food be digested well in your body?
Food should be digested well so that the important nutrients inside food can be more easily absorbed.
Does age affect the stomach pH?
Yes, children normally have a higher pH due to reduce gastric acid secretion.
At birth pH is 6-8 due to amniotic fluid in the stomach, after a day or so this acidifies to around adult levels pH 1.5-3, it then rises again to neutral at around a week to 10 days and gradually lowers after 2-3 years to adult levels again.
pH levels in the elderly may also be higher
Is digestion caused by acid or alkiali?
Digestion is basically brought about by Enzymes, HCl, acid helps in killing bacteria :)
