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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 do you understand by the digestion?
Digestion follows some stages. Firstly, proteins are broken in the stomach through chloride acid. Pancreas release enzymes to digest lipids, starchy foods. The liver produces and excretes bile (a yellowish liquid) required for emulsifying fats. Some of the bile drains directly into the duodenum, and some is stored in the gallbladder. In the intestines, digestion reach the final stage where digested foods are absorbed through microscopic intestinal villi that have the function of absorbing the digested food into the bloodstream.
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What of the function of the epiglottis?
The function of the epiglottis is to close when eat stopping the food to go to your lungs
What is primary liver carcinoma?
It is a good question! Liver is a common site for the secondary invasion of almost all type of cancers. But liver cells are not immune from getting converted into cancer cells. When this happens, it is called as primary liver carcinoma.
Are nutrients moved around in the circulatory system?
Nutrients do not move along the circulatory system only but they are carried to each cell via extra cellular and extra vascular fluid.( Called interstitial fluid. )
PKU!
How does the nervous system work with other body system?
It coordinates with the other body parts on which it serves us the control center of the body and also it contains the network that sends signals containing the functions or actions it will do.
What group of people beside anthropologists study past human cultures?
Human geography Archaeologists
How do oxygen and particles of digested food get into the cells of your body?
Oxygen and particles of digested food get into the cells from the small intestine, from there they drain into the hepatic portal vein. The hepatic portal vein goes to the liver to filter out nutrients required and excesses are metabolized and converted.
The small intestine is the answer your looking for.
Where do the probiotic microbes in your gut come from?
The gastrointestinal tract of a normal fetus is sterile. Babies born vaginally became inoculated with microbes from their mothers, including Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, E.coli and Enteroccoccus. This mixture gives them an immediate natural defense barrier of probiotic microbes that protect against pathogens, and affect their health throughout life.
Probiotic foods, including fermented vegetables (sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi) fermented drinks (kefir, kombucha), and fermented soy products (miso, tempeh, natto, soy yogurt) contain probiotic microbes as a result of fermentation or through the addition of a live culture. Eating these foods has the potential of helping you balance your intestinal microbes and thereby improve your health. Probiotic supplements are also sold as pills that contain millions of friendly bacteria, and sometimes yeast. You can buy them in natural food stores, usually in the refrigerated section. Probiotics are non-toxic.
Encourage the growth of healthy probiotic microbes by eating healthy foods and avoiding antibiotics, whenever possible. This means mother's milk for infants and unrefined plant foods for children and adults. Babies delivered by cesarean section or fed formula may benefit from probiotics specifically designed for infants. You may also want to take probiotic supplements after a course of prescribed antibiotics in order to help reestablish healthy intestinal microbes. Finally, if you still suffer from irregular bowel movements, indigestion, elevated cholesterol, or arthritis, then you may want to try enhancing your probiotic microbes with supplements.
How an earthworms feeds and digest it's food?
From the mouth the soil moves to the crop, where it is stored . Behind the crop is a muscular structure called the gizzard. Here, the soil and food are ground. In the intestine, the food is broken down and absored by the blood . Undigested soil and wastes leave the worm through the anus.
4 Stimuli that regulate gastrointestinal tract activity are generated by what?
Stimuli that regulate gastrointestinal tract activity are generated by factors such as nervous system inputs, mechanical stretch of the intestinal wall, chemical stimuli from food and hormones released by the digestive organs. These stimuli play a crucial role in coordinating digestion and absorption processes in the gastrointestinal tract.
What does gastrointestinal disturbance mean?
Gastrointestinal disturbance can present itself as a pain in the upper and lower right quadrats of the abdomen, it can occasionally be mistaken for appendicitis. If you are on long term prescription medication it may need to be changed as gastrointestinal disturbance can be an undesirable side-effect. However, if you experience sharp pains in the areas mentioned above, visit your MD or local ER as soon as possible as it could be in fact, appendicitis which requires an emergency appendectomy if it is to avoid rupturing.
What bile is responsible in globules of fat?
Bile comes from gall bladder. It contains the bile salts. These salts are responsible for emulsification of the fat in your food. that means very fine fat globules are formed. this helps to increase the surface area of the fat. That helps the fat splitting enzyme to brake the fat molecule into three molecules of fatty acids and one molecule of glycerol.
What function does mucus have on the gastrointestinal tract?
In the stomach, the stomach acid is there to digest protein. Your stomach, as is mucus, is made of protein. So, your stomach produces mucus to sacrifice instead of the stomach muscle/protein. The mucus is continually being digested by the acid, but it is also continuously being produced at the same rate as its digestion.
The mucus also protects the inner lining of the digestive system against abrasive objects you may have eaten.
Lubrication? Need I say more than that mucus is slippery so the food slides more easily.
What are the benefits of a monogastric digestive system?
they can get energy quicker and the digestion process is quicker
What are the enzymes found in saliva that break down starch is called?
The enzyme found in saliva that breaks down starch is called amylase. Amylase helps to hydrolyze starch into smaller molecules such as maltose and glucose, which can then be absorbed in the intestines for energy.
What are the main parts of a starfishes circulatory system?
the circulatory system has three main parts:
the heart
the blood vessels
the blood
but actually theres more
arteries, capillaries, and viens
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Why did slavery start in the first place?
Slavery is as old as man. or OLDER! Some ant colonies overtake other ant colonies and make them into slaves. I am not sure that there is any human slaver in wide use today, and noone alive had any slaves, So why not GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where do you start the process to get custody of kids that are not yours?
The first thing that must be established is that the parent(s) or whomever is caring for the children is neglectful and/or abusive towards them. The interested party should contact the state's department of children and family services and request an investigation. The results of an investigation determine what if any action should be taken. Even if social services find just cause to remove the children from the home, this does not mean that the interested party would be granted custodial/guardianship rights.
One of the three digestive enzymes present in the saliva is?
Several examples: amylase, lypase, lysozyme.
Is the gallbladder chemical or mechanical breakdown?
Since there is no machinery in the body, it is a chemical breakdown.
Growing taller. All the others are cosmetic changes.
Where does urine production begin in the human body?
In the Bowman's capsule, which is a part of the nephron, which is in the kidney.
