placement of body parts. The first two directions are Superior which means towards the head or upper and inferior which means towards the feet or lower. An example when referring to the position of body parts would be‚ the stomach is inferior to the heart or the hear is superior to the stomach. To describe a body part that is toward the front of another part is Anterior while posterior describes a part that would be toward the back. An example would be your lungs are anterior to your spine or your spine is
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to the stomach and then leaves the body. But in reality there is much more to digestion that I didn’t know about. I found plenty of useful information from a lot of different websites. During my research i learned that the epiglottis is a big part of digestion. The epiglottis is cartilage that sits right behind our tongue. The epiglottis lets us swallow the food that we have chewed up. I also learned the gastrointestinal tract is and enlargement of our
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Only newborn babies can get the pyloric stenosis. What is Pyloric stenosis? Pyloric stenosis is a condition that some babies get. The causing of the pyloric stenosis is the one muscle in your stomach is over-working itself. What it does is it closes of any food‚ or drink from getting to your stomach. surgeons have to go in and make a little incision‚ in that muscle to relax it‚ to make food go down the right way. If you don’t then you are not getting anything that went. The Pyloric could be
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fermentation of indigestible matter by gut bacteria and for reabsorption of water from digests before excretion Mechanical and chemical digestion begins in the mouth where food is chewed nad mixed with saliva to begin enzymatic processing of starches. The stomach will continues to break down mechanically and chemically through churning and mixing with both acids and enzymes. The whole digestive system is about 9 meters long II.Parts of the system 1.Mouth Known as the “Buccal Cavity”‚where food is chewed
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Unit 4 Report Distributing Metabolites through the body Food that we consume is composed of very complex molecules. During the digestive process these compounds are broken down into smaller and smaller subunits in preparation for use by the body as building blocks needed for the many components of the human body. In Module 3 we followed the food through the digestive system and considered the process that takes place in the digestive system. The pizza that was eaten by Matt and Maria contained ingredients
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Disorder|Description|Organ(s) Affected by Disorder| Lactose Intolerant|congenital disorder consisting of an inability to digest milk and milk products|stomach| GERD|gastric reflux disease‚ or acid reflux disease is a chronic symptom of mucosal[->0] damage caused by stomach acid coming up from the stomach[->1] into the esophagus[->2]|stomach| Colorectal Cancer|Colorectal cancer‚ also called colon cancer or large bowel cancer‚ includes cancerous growths in the colon‚ rectum and appendix|Intestines
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next step was cutting further down‚ as I did that I notice the diaphragm is separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity. In the abdominal cavity‚ the liver is seen along with the stomach (shapes like a big balloon)‚ which is underneath the liver. The spleen is located on the left side of the stomach and the pancreas is located over the spleen. As the gallbladder is attach to the liver (right side). Therefore‚ behind the liver were the kidneys and behind that were the intestines large and
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Back Safety Training Materials handling and lifting Learning Objectives This training is designed to: Discuss the importance of back safety and identify the factors contributing to back injuries and disorders Illustrate and discuss poor sitting and standing postures versus correct postures Discuss proper lifting techniques and reasons why people lift incorrectly; demonstrate proper lifting techniques Demonstrate exercises and stretches for good back care BEHAVIORAL SAFETY PRINCIPLES #1
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this (heavy vascularisation) maintains constant gradient so that the drugs are constantly removed into the blood stream pH in stomach about 2 Implication: weak acids absorbed readily‚ weak bases not absorbed as readily Implication: some of the drugs may not be able to suvive that acidic environment. & they may disintegrate in that environment. For sch drugs‚ stomach may not be suitable. Pepsin and Trypsin = enzymes which break down peptides (they are proteases) Trypsin will chop off the proteins
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Food additives: - A substance added to food during processing to improve colour‚ texture‚ flavour or keeping qualities. The E stands for European which means it is approved by Europe. Digestion and Absorption: - Digestion is the breakdown of food into smaller particles or individual nutrients. It is accomplished through six basic processes‚ with the help of several body fluids—particularly digestive juices that are made up of compounds such as saliva‚ mucus‚ enzymes ‚ hydrochloric acid‚ bicarbonate
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