Small intestine

The nervous system carries data to and from the brain and spinal cord to various bodily parts. There are three main functions of the nervous system, including sensory input, integration of data and motor output which occurs in the Brain and/or Spinal Cord. Sensory input is described as when the body gathers information of data, which correlates with the human senses such as touch, taste and sight. Integration of data occurs in the brain only once the brain has processed the information and is…

Crohn’s disease is a form of inflammatory bowl disease also known as IBD that affects the lining of the digestive tract. Symptoms of this disease vary between people depending on where it occurs in the bowel, and the severity of the inflammation. Typically, the signs and symptoms will be chronic diarrhea that contains pus, blood, or mucus, weight loss, fever, gastralgia (stomach pain), cramping, and rectal bleeding. It is not known how one gets crohn’s disease, but there are a few factors that…

after Dr. Burrill B. Crohn who discovered it in 1932; 2 he described it as a part of Inflammatory Bowel Disease or IBD. Chrohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract, affecting the beginning of the colon and or the small bowel, also known as the ileum. It doesn’t just affect the previously stated body organs but as well as digestive tract in general which also include: the stomach, the esophagus, or even the mouth. This disease (Chrohn’s) is also known as…

The digestion process begins when we bite into our food. We chew our food so that we can break it into smaller pieces, which make it simpler for the body to digest. The following four layers create the esophagus: the mucosa, submucosa, muscularis, and tunica adventitia. Collectively, the mucosa and submucosa build elongated folds. During digestion, the esophageal lumen is occupied with the food and liquids we swallow. However, when we are not swallowing, the elongated folds work to close…

Box jellyfish Nomenclature "Box jellyfish" and "sea wasp" are common names for the highly venomous Chironex fleckeri. However, these terms are ambiguous, as "sea wasp" and "marine stinger" are sometimes used to refer to other jellyfish. Anatomy "Cubomedusae", from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904 The medusa form of a box jellyfish has a squarish, box-like bell. From each of the four lower corners of this hangs a short pedalium or stalk which bears one or more long, slender, hollow…

Teeth are essential to the human body. They are the parts of our body that help us to chew. It gives people the sense of taste and, partially the sense of smell. Teeth are small, tough, whitish compositions made of calcium found in the mouth. Their main purpose is to break down food by chewing it and destroying it so the food can be ready for digestion. We clean our teeth so we do not get them infected or dirty from something. Sometimes, however we can get diseases from the teeth. We can protect…

Taste or gustation is one of the senses that we have. We use it when we eat or drink something and we use our tongues for that sense. There are different tastes that we can perceive by the different sides in our tongues. There is the sweet taste, which we can usually have when we eat candies or chocolates, bitter, when drinking coffee, salty taste, like the taste of the salt, our sweat or tears and then there’s the sour taste, the thing that can get your face looked crumpled like when you eat an…

The main objective of this lab was to observe the effect of the enzyme concentration versus the reaction time of an enzymatic reaction, and the effects of the reactants and products concentration direction of the reaction. Specifically, in this lab the enzymes salivary amylase and phosphorylase were looked at the effect of the enzyme concentration versus the reaction time of an enzymatic reaction were observed by the iodine test along with the benedict’s test. Enzymes are known as biological…

no pain (heart burn) within the chest although stomach fluids can be easily back washed into the oesophagus. Small actions such as coughing, vomiting, straining or sudden physical exertion can cause increase pressure in the upper abdomen resulting in Hiatal Hernia. Obesity and pregnancy contributes into have a Hiatal Hernia although people who are over 50 years old generally have a small Hiatal Hernia. Hiatal Hernia does not usually require treatments, however severe cases of Hiatal Hernia may…

Purpose: The kidneys are a very important organ responsible for removing nitrogenous waste in the body. Every day, the kidneys filter about 120 to 150 quarts of blood to produce about 1 to 2 quarts of urine, composed of wastes and extra fluid. To understand how this amazing organ works, it‘s important to explore and learn about each component. This dissection of kidney is a great opportunity to earn first hand on experience with the kidney and understand it role in the unary system.…