Disorders of the Digestive System Hyperacidity Excessive secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach is hyperacidity‚ which is technically known as hyperchlorohydria. It causes heart burn (Severe pain and burning sensation in the epigastric region due to hyperacidity is called heartburn) . Hyperacidity leads to ulcers. causes 1. Medicines like aspirin 2. Drinks like alcohol 1. Beverages like coffee 1. Cigarette smoking and tobacco chewing 1. Foods containing excess
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ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM The digestive system is basically a tube running through the body from the mouth to the anus. The organs of the digestive system include the oral cavity (mouth)‚ esophagus‚ stomach‚ small and large intestine and rectum. Their role is to break down food and deliver the products to the blood for dispersal to the body cells. The undigested food that remains in the tract leaves the body through the anus as feces. The break down activities that
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Digestive System Study Guide 1. Define the term digestion and explain its significance. The chemical and mechanical process of breaking down food and its absorption. Its essential to maintaining life. 2. Distinguish between mechanical digestion and chemical digestion. Chemical digestion is where complex food molecules are broken down to the basic building blocks by enzymes. Mechanical digestion is chewing‚ churning and segmentation. 3. Discuss the five digestive processes that overview the many functions
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just need to simply double-click on yhe “Human Digestive System.exe” file. By doing this you will directly be brought to the opening screen and after that will directly to the main menu screen. There will be five buttons on main menu‚ they are “Learning”‚ “Exercise”‚ Demo Video”‚ and “Exit”. Each of these button will bring you to several different pages. 1. Learning By clicking this button‚ you will be brought to the learning material of “Human Digestive System”. after you click “Learning” button
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DIGESTION Cooking vs. Digestive Processes Cooking Processes: Grilling Microwaving Frying Roasting Barbeque Boiling Steaming Poaching Digestive Processes: Ingestion Propulsion Mechanical digestion Chemical digestion Absorption Defecation Salivary Digestion SALIVARY DIGESTION Salivary Glands the salivary glands are a collection of accessory organs surrounding the mouth that secrete a fluid called saliva. Saliva consists of 99.5 % water and 0.5 % solutes. medium for dissolving
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The Digestive System The digestive system is made up of the digestive tract—a series of hollow organs joined in a long‚ twisting tube from the mouth to the anus—and other organs that help the body break down and absorb food. Organs that make up the digestive tract are the mouth‚ esophagus‚ stomach‚ small intestine‚ large intestine—also called the colon—rectum‚ and anus. Inside these hollow organs is a lining called the mucosa. In the mouth‚ stomach‚ and small intestine‚ the mucosa contains tiny
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Zhane’ Jackson April 16‚ 2013 Bio 112L Lab Report Bones and the Digestive‚ Respiratory‚ Circulatory‚ and Nervous Systems Introduction: Bones are what our skeletal systems are made up of. There are 206 bones in the human body of the adult skeleton. The adult skeleton is broken up in two divisions: the axial skeleton‚ and the appendicular skeleton. The axil skeleton is made up of 80 bones‚ and the appendicular skeleton is made up of 126 bones. As for the different systems of the body‚ we
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The Digestive System: Anatomy Review 1. List two main divisions of the digestive system. a. _____________________ b. _____________________ 2. The four main layers of the digestive tract wall are a. ___________. b. ___________. c. ___________. d. ___________. 3. Label the diagram below with the four main layers you listed in question 6. 4. The mucosa includes a type of columnar ________that forms the inner lining of the lumen 5. Blood and lymph vessels of the mucosa are found in its ______
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Anatomy Travel Bureau welcomes you to Your Digestive System! [pic] Kaitlynn Daseke-Collette Anatomy and Physiology The Digestive System This journey your about to experience may take up to several days. I hope you’ve packed well. We will be going through seas‚ acid rains‚ and dry‚ desert like conditions. So without wasting any more time let me give you a play by play of your vacation! First Stop Our first stop will be breakfast after you wake up on day one. You will
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Parts of the digestive system The digestive system consists primarily of the alimentary canal‚ a tube that extends from the mouth to the rectum. As food moves through this canal‚ it is ground and mixed with various digestive juices. Most of these juices contain digestive enzymes‚ chemicals that speed up reactions involved in the breakdown of food. The stomach and the small intestines‚ which are parts of the alimentary canal‚ each produce a digestive juice. Other digestive juices empty into the alimentary
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