Salivary gland

The accessory digestive organs act as an assistant that helps to breakdown food, consist of salivary glands, tongue, gallbladder, liver, and pancreas. Refer to page 1022 for a complete picture diagram. • Tongue: Muscle located in the mouth. • Gallbladder: Small organ that stores bile. The bile is released in our small intestine when we digest our food (mostly used to digest fatty foods). • Salivary glands: Also, known as parotid (on either side of the mouth and in front of both ears). They all…

is the oral cavity and salivary glands. The function of the oral cavity is the ingestion of liquids, solids and the chewing of solids to break them down ready for the stomach. Salivary glands in the oral cavity secrets saliva in order to aid smoother digestion down the oesophagus and amylase starts breaking down any starch. As authors Marieb and Hoehn(2015) states the submandibular and Minor salivary glands secrete saliva, serous fluid and Mucus, but the Von Ebner’s Gland secrete a fluid which…

• Peristalsis – rhythmic muscular contractions of the digestive track that move its contents along the digestive track. • Segmentation – contraction happening in the small intestine. It divide and mixes the chime (partially digested food and digestive juices) • Enzymes – proteins that speed up chemical reactions without change to themselves. • Esophageal sphincter – the opening between the esophagus and he stomach that relaxes and opens to allow the bolus to travel into stomach and then closes…

1. DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM A fast-dissolving drug delivery system, in most cases, is a tablet that dissolves or disintegrates in the oral cavity without the need for water or chewing. Most fast dissolving delivery system films must include substances to mask the taste of the active ingredient. This masked active ingredient is then swallowed by the patient’s saliva along with the soluble and insoluble excipients. Improved patient compliance is a primary benefit of the fast-dissolving drug delivery…

absorbable food particles. The process of digestion first occurs in the mouth, where the teeth is used to grind the food and break down the food into smaller food particles. When we chew, our teeth mechanically soften the food and the salivary glands produce an enzyme called salivary amylase, which mixes with and further breaks down, the food. The next stage in digestion happens in the stomach. The stomach secretes gastric juice which the stomach utilizes to prevent bacterial growth and kills…

one particular part. For the circulatory system I will be focusing on the myocardium. For the lymphatic system the disease I choose ususally causes pain in the abdomen along with swelling in the lymph nodes on the sides of the neck and near the salivary glands. Last for the respiratory system I will be looking at the alveoli their purpose in the lungs and how the disease I’ve chosen affects their ability o function properly. The disease I’ve chosen for the circulatory system is arrthymogenicc…

Food is taken in the mouth the first process is Mastication. This is the biting and chewing a feed breaking food into smaller particles. The incisor teeth cut and the molars grind. The food is mixed with saliva causing a breakdown of digestion of carbohydrates begins in the mouth, amylase is secreted and starts breaking down the carbs in the bread to form a bolus of food. This Bolus of food is pushed between the hard palate and the tongue mixing the bolus of food with saliva and pushing the…

an integral part of a normal diet. Diet affects the integrity of teeth; quantity, pH and composition of saliva; plaque pH. Sugars and other fermentable carbohydrates after being hydrolyzed with salivary amylase provide substrate f or the action of the oral bacteria , which in turn lower plaque and salivary pH. The resultant action is the beginning of teeth demineralization A dynamic and definite association exists between the consumption…

Radioiodine (I-131) Therapy for Hyperthyroidism Radioiodine (I-131) therapy is a procedure to treat an overactive thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism). The thyroid is a gland in the neck that uses iodine to help control how the body uses food (metabolism). In this procedure, you swallow a pill or liquid containing I-131. I-131 is manmade iodine that gives off radiation. This destroys thyroid cells and reverses hyperthyroidism. LET YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER KNOW ABOUT: • Any allergies you have.…

prevalence of this virus is very high, because it’s form of contact to the disease is fairly easy to come in contact with since it can infect two different cells in the body. The salivary glands cell and leukocytes. The form in which the pathogen infects the salivary glands is by carrying the virus in the cell of the salivary gland from your mouth. (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, and “About Epstein-Barr Virus…