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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.
7,599 Questions
What muscle helps with food digestion and breathing?
Previous answer: "involuntary muscles"
This answer is not accurate. While breathing muscles do act involuntarily, they can also be activated voluntarily. The two primary muscles responsible for breathing are the diaphragm and the tranversus abdominus. The diaphragm is the primary muscle for inhalation, if you're breathing correctly. The transverse is the primary muscle for forced exhalation.
Since both muscle, when contracting, move inward into the abdominal cavity, where your organs of digestion are, they move the internal organs, essentially creating an internal massage mechanism for the large and small intestines, which helps keep smooth motion going in the involuntary pyloric (intestinal) muscles.
Are enzymes produced in the appendix?
The appendix is not a vital organ however, new research has discovered that it islikely to help store good bacteria of the digestive system, however technically nothing has been proven.
What do the parts of the digestive system do?
The first organ is the mouth. the mouth chops all the food into little pieces. then it goes down the esophagus and from the esophagus it is the stomach then idk the rest
Can people go to bathroom in the woods?
If there is no other bathroom nearby, yes. However, if in a public park, you could get cited for indecent public exposure.
What special features does the digestive system have?
The stomach: in the stomach everything is blended with digestive juices. Hydrochloric acid kills bacteria. Enzymes break down proteins that is why the stomach is sometimes refered to as the acid bath
What is the structure that conducts food from mouth to the stomach?
The sructure that helps transport the food from the mouth to the stomach is called the esophagus which is an organ.
Which organ does food and air pass through?
The pharynx serves as a passageway for both food and air.
Can you get sick by eating raw meat?
If the potatoes are growing (have a green tinge) then they are poisonous and are not fit for anything except growing or composting. If you have an regularly unhealthy diet, then you may get stomach aches. If the potatoes look unhealthy, then it is probably not safe to eat.
Otherwise, no, you can't get sick from eating raw potatoes.
Do carbohydrates serve as enzymes and structural components in living things?
They are a source of energy for most living things but they are also used for building blocks to modify proteins. Plants use carbohydrates in the form of cellulose to build their rigid structures.
In which abdominal quadrant are bowel sounds most active and easiest to auscultate?
Bowel sounds are MOST ACTIVE in the Right Lower Quadrant (RLQ) because to the right of the Umbilicus is the Ileocecal Valve and the point at which the Small Intestine connects to the Large Intestine. However, they can be heard in other quadrants too but the Right Lower Quadrant is where bowel sounds are most active.
What are the finger-like projections in the intestines?
The finger-like projections in the small intestines are called villi & they are present in the small intestine to increase the surface area of the intestinal wall. A greater surface area allows the intestines to absorb more nutrients from the digested food into the blood stream. Villi are prominent in the small intestines because this is where majority of the absorption of nutrients occur. Villi also play a small role in the digestion of food.
What is an experiment for starch digestion?
The first step in the digestion of starch is the mouth mashing up the starches. Next, the stomach acids break down the starches. Then it passes to the small intestine where dextrinase and glucoamylase further break down the starches. Several enzymes are released from the pancreas into the small intestine to finish breaking down the starches.
What is the substance that contains several enzymes and is often used to clean contact lenses?
All of them.
Why are you burping up rotten eggs?
The first common, and most serious, cause of sulfur burps is an infection from Helicobacter pylori or Giardia. Helicobacter pylori is a bacterium that can cause serious infection and ulcers within your stomach. Giardia is a parasite that makes its home in your lower intestine and reproduces to cause serious stomach problems. The most common ways to introduce either of these infections is through unclean water sources or poor hygiene and oral-fecal transmission. Sulfur burps can be a symptom of both of these infections.
Some food may also cause sulfur burps. This is especially true in those with diets high in protein. The main culprit in food-related sulfur burps is hydrogen sulfide. If your stomach takes longer than normal to process and expel a meal high in protein, the lingering food can actually start to build up acid and cause a chemical reaction that creates hydrogen sulfide. This can also explain why someone suffering from sulfur burps may feel bloated. In these cases, the sulfur burps usually go away once the lingering protein and hydrogen sulfide is expelled.
Why the protein of small intestine itself is not digested?
Possible Answers: The epithelial cells lining the stomach have specialized defensive properties against stong acids
Mucous found within the stomach
The stomach's epithelial cells are defenseless against stong acids
The stomach has a pH of 7 when digestion isn't taking place
Correct answer: Mucous found within the stomach
Explanation: A layer of mucous forms between the epithelial cells of the stomach and the acid within the stomach. This mucous is secreted by mucous cells lining the stomach. When the mucous layer is broken down, certain complications can take place (e.g. stomach ulcers).
How does th bacteria reproduce in the digestive system?
Digestive bacteria reproduce by a process called Binary fission, which simply means one cell divided to become two cells, then those two cells become four, four become eight, etc the same way you do. Skin is the first line of defense and it work as physical barrier for all the microbes and particle. Skin has many secretory products which kill the bacteria also.
How Long Does It take for food to be pushed along the gut?
Food typically takes about 24 to 72 hours to move through the entire digestive tract, depending on various factors such as the type of food consumed and individual metabolism. After ingestion, food spends a few hours in the stomach before moving into the small intestine, where it can remain for 3 to 5 hours. It then enters the large intestine, where it may take 12 to 48 hours to be eliminated. Overall, the entire process can vary significantly from person to person.
What removes water from wastes?
Urination. If you are looking for a little bit more, inside your body, you use the vitamins and such in the things you drink. Then water, the liquid wastes, and something called urea (if the wastes and urea aren't the same thing, I'm not sure) combine and make urine, which is taken to your bladder and stored until it is full. Then you urinate and that is when the water comes out.
What is the name of one digestive juice?
---- Gastric acid is mainly composed of hydrochloric acid, 2 protein digesting enzymes (Pepsin and Rennin), as well as mucus.
Food travels down the esophagus or intestines by a muscle movement called "Peristalsis" that constantly pushes the food down into the stomach.
What nutrient is broken down in the anus?
Nothing is broken down in the anus because it is where the waste/stole is passed.
What is the physiology of a chickens digestive system?
Mouth & beak: Gathers and breaks down food
Esophagus : the tube from the mouth leading to the stomach
Crop: Food storage and moistening
Proventriculus: Glandular stomach (HCI and gastric juices) enzymatic
Gizzard: Muscular stomach, mechanical breakdown of food.
Small intestine: Enzymatic,digestion and absorption.
Large Intestine: Bacterial activity, water absorption and waste storage
Cloaca: Common chamber for GI, urinary tract and ovum
