Stomach
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The Stomach
(Ventriculus; Gaster)
The stomach is the most dilated part of the digestive tube, and is situated between the end of the esophagus and the beginning of the small intestine.
Stomach poison: An insecticide that is lethal only after it has been ingested by an insect, entering the insect body through the gut.
stomach The muscular organ between the esophagus and small intestine that stores, mixes, and digests food and controls the passage of food into the small intestine. PICTURE ...
stomach
The part of the vertebrate gut system that follows the esophagus. It is expanded to form a chamber, and its walls secrete pepsinogen, giving rise to pepsin, rennin, and hydrochloric acid.
The stomach
The wall of the stomach is lined with millions of gastric glands, which together secrete 400-800 ml of gastric juice at each meal. Several kinds of cells are found in the gastric glands ...
The Stomach (or Churn, Churn, Churn)
During a meal, the stomach gradually fills to a capacity of 1 liter, from an empty capacity of 50-100 milliliters. At a price of discomfort, the stomach can distend to hold 2 liters or more.
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Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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stomach The expansion of the alimentary canal between the esophagus and duodenum.
stomates The small openings in leaves, herbaceous stems, and fruits through which gases and water vapor pass.
Your Stomach
As that hotdog bite falls into the stomach, a round muscle called a sphincter closes behind it. This protects the esophagus from having food or other chemicals splash back into it.
The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
1. (Science: botany) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, ...
[Gk. gaster, stomach]
Pertaining to the stomach.
gastrin
A digestive hormone, secreted by the stomach, that stimulates the secretion of gastric juice.
It is a muscular stomach in the bird that aids in crushing food (usually tough plant material), often aided by gizzard rocks. Many birds have a gizzard, as did some dinosaurs.
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The muscles of the stomach participate in mechanical digestion by churning the food "bolus.
Gastrin - is in the stomach and stimulates the gastric glands to secrete pepsinogen and hydrochloric acid. Secretion of gastrin is stimulated by food arriving in stomach. The secretion is inhibited by low pH .
Barry Marshall and Robin Warren of Australia discovered bacteria in the stomach lining of patients with chronic gastritis and peptic ulcers.
These gametocytes are circulating in the bloodstream, and when a mosquito then feeds, it takes a blood meal, and when it takes a blood meal it takes some of these male and female forms into its stomach, where fertilization occurs.
When you eat, food travels into your stomach, and digestion begins. You don't need your stomach working if you aren't eating.
At this age, the child often has signs of anemia, stunted growth, or an enlarged spleen, also manifested in a swollen stomach.
Most who are infected with Shigella develop diarrhea, fever, and stomach cramps starting a day or two after they are exposed to the bacterium. The diarrhea is often bloody. Shigellosis usually resolves in 5 to 7 days.
Antacids chemicals consumed by people to react with stomach acid to change the pH of the stomach contents to a neutral pH
(anti = against‚ opposite; acid = sour‚ sharp)
Anterior front or head end of an organism
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gastrula - the belly, stomach] The early embryonic stage following the blastula stage during which cell migrations form distinct germ layers. The primitive gut (archenteron) is formed and opens to the exterior through the blastopore.
Salt-cured or pickled foods cause cancers in the stomach and esophagus.
Smoked foods such as ham and sausage contain carcinogens similar to those in tobacco smoke.
Hot dogs and cold cuts contain nitrites, which are converted to nitrosamines.
because toxicants enter the body through the stomach and intestines and are then transported to the kidney
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because the kidney has a very large surface area in direct contact with the blood ...
esophagus -- That portion of the gut which connects the pharynx to the stomach.
exoskeleton -- n. An external, often hard, covering or integument that provides support and protection to the body.
In vertebrates, this innermost layer of cells goes on to form the linings of the gut (esophagus, stomach, intestines, rectum, colon), pharyngeal pouch derivatives (tonsils,thyroid, thymus, parathyroid glands), lungs, liver, gall bladder, pancreas.
associated with influenza are sometimes experienced by children, but for most adults, illnesses that manifest in diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting are not caused by the influenza virus though they are often inaccurately referred to as the "stomach flu.
 See also: Stoma, Trans, Blood, Organ, Human
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