Essays Tagged: "Small intestine"
Psychodelic Drugs
state to persons over 21.Alcohol is absorbed directly into the bloodstream through the stomach and small intestine. It is distributed by the blood throughout the body, affecting literally every organ ... on, 'letting go' is a major desired effect of alcohol. People feel more sociable and talkative with small amounts of the drug. Alcohol is a relaxant, so many people drink to unwind from the demands of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Chrones Disease
ry bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease bu ... e (spastic colitis). The correct diagnosis may take some time. Crohn's disease usually involves the small intestine, most often the lower part (the ileum). In some cases, both the small and large inte ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Lactobacillus Acidophilus - why lactobacillus is a "good" bacteria and how it is used to help your body and prevent other diseases.
idophilus is the particular strain. It helps reduce the levels of harmful bacteria and yeast in the small intestine and also produces lactase, an enzyme which is important in the digestion of milk. L. ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
An overview of the genetic disease Cystic Fibrosis
ctive functions of sufferers. In our body, exocrine glands discharge various bodily secretions into small ducts (tubes), which lead to the outer surface of the skin or to the interior surfaces of such ... lead to the outer surface of the skin or to the interior surfaces of such organs as the stomach and small intestine. In individuals with Cystic Fibrosis, these secretions become abnormally thick, bloc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Chron's disease
eeding.What Are The Affects On Chron's DiseaseCrohn's Disease usually affects the ileum area of the small intestine but can occur in the large and small intestines, the mouth, esophagus, stomach, appe ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
ry Bowel Disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's Disease bu ... e (spastic colitis). The correct diagnosis may take some time. Crohn's disease usually involves the small intestine, most often the lower part (ileum). In some cases, both small and large intestine ar ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Nearly 16 million people in the United States--nearly one out of every 17 people--have diabetes. And about 1,800 new cases are diagnosed each day.
e digestive process breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which is absorbed into the blood in the small intestine.People who don't have diabetes rely on insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas, t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Cholera and its Implications for the Modern World
bacterial disease known as Cholera.Cholera is caused when the bacterium Vibrio cholerae infects the small intestine. Amore precise name for the region infected is the gastrointestinal area. The bacter ... of humans. The bacteria moves by means of flagellum. Thebacterium produces a toxin that causes the small intestine to secrete fluids, leading tovomiting and diarrhea. The life cycle of the cholera ba ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Diabetes
e digestive process breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which is absorbed into the blood in the small intestine. People who don't have diabetes rely on insulin, a hormone made in the pancre ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Cholera
CholeraChlora is an infection in the small intestine caused by the common shaped bacterium Vibro Cholerae.It infects your small intestine ... y the bacterium that largely increases the passage of fluid from the bloodstream into the large and small intestines.TreatmentIn a few cases Cholera can be treated by drinking large amounts of water m ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
This essay describes the anatomy of the frog
anical digestive because of the ruggae in the frog's stomach. From the stomach, food moves into the small intestine, where the most of the chemical digestion, (by the pancreatic juices of pancreatin, ... lin, and bile from the liver) and nutrient absorption take place. One special feature of the frog's small intestine is that it has villi, which are small projections that greatly increase the surface ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
This is a description of the diease Amebiasis
an also be received through infected water. Once the cyst form of the amoeba makes it was in to the small intestine an infection begins.GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:The populations susceptible to Amebias ... ts found in contaminated water, food, or other objects move into the body and when making in to the small intestine start to reproduce. The cysts and trophozoites (babies) feed off what the host eats. ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Stomach Cancer
ch. It can develop in any part of the stomach and grow along the stomach wall into the esophagus or small intestine. Stomach cancer is the second most common form of cancerIt also may extend through t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Digestive System- My directions were to start with the stomach and describe what happens to the food as it goes through the digestive system
e travels through the pyloric sphincter valve (which opens when the stomach is full, it allows only small amounts into the small intestine at a time) and into the duodenum, the first part of the small ... to the small intestine at a time) and into the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. The small intestine is 7 meters long and about 2.5 centimeters in diameter, it is made up of three struc ...
Subjects: Science Essays
"Present a thorough discussion on the seven main features of an infectious disease of your own finding."
organisms need to be ingested to cause illness. After ingestion, the viable bacteria attach to the small intestine and produce cholera toxin . There are a number of causes which may contribute to the ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Ancylostomiasis
re the bathroom may be an outhouse or simply the outdoors. Hookworms' parasitic region is the upper small intestine, especially the upper jejunum. Hookworms my also be to blame for the reputation many ... k of adequate sanitation and generally poor living conditions.Hookworm's life cycle starts from the small intestine and ends there, too. Their eggs are released onto the soil through the human feces, ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The digestive system
m the mouth to the anus. Inside this tube is a lining called the mucosa. In the mouth, stomach, and small intestine, the mucosa contains tiny glands that produce juices to help digest food. This tube ... gy for our bodies to use. In order to use the food we eat, our body has to break the food down into smaller molecules that it can process; it also has to excrete waste. In other words, the food we eat ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Digestive system
the mouth to the anus . Inside this tube is a lining called the mucosa. In the mouth, stomach, and small intestine, the mucosa contains tiny glands that produce juices to help digest food.Two solid o ... solid organs, the liver and the pancreas, produce digestive juices that reach the intestine through small tubes. In addition, parts of other organ systems (for instance, nerves and blood) play a major ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
The Endocrine System and the Female Cycle
esides these major organs, the system Includes pockets of hormone-producing cells In tissues in the small Intestine, heart, kidneys and stomach. The endocrine system develops and begins producing horm ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Digestive System
e around.The chyme then passes through the pyloric valve by peristalsis to the first portion of the small intestine, the duodenum. The duodenum is where most of the chemical digestion takes place. Her ... the gallbladder. Bile aids in the mechanical digestion of fat. The pancreas and gland cells of the small intestine secrete digestive enzymes that chemically break down complex food molecules into sim ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology