Networks of tiny blood vessels, known as capillaries, form the beginning of the portal circulation. These capillaries drain blood from the digestive system, all the way from the lowest part of the esophagus to the last section of gut which leads to the anus. Similar networks of capillaries dra...
That’s what varicose veins are – the body’s way of creating detours around the portal area where a blockage of some sort has occurred. Keep your body fit through exercise, detoxification and good nutrition – and your body won’t have to create detours to keep your blood flowing. ...
aThis Unit works 24 hours a day, providing imaging studies to both in patients and out patients and specially to patients seen at the Emergency Room. Any conventional x Ray study is performed, including chest x Rays, bones, barium studies of the esophagus, stomach, small bowell and colon, ...
Anyway, the moral of the story is that, male or female, you have nerve fibers that exit your skull through the jugular foramen, pass down your neck behind your carotid arteries, follow your esophagus and stomach to the networks of nerves that run your guts, and run as impossibly slender f...
When you last saw this rhea neck, I was squeezing a thin, unpleasant fluid out of its esophagus. Previous rhea dissection posts are here and here; you may also be interested in my ratite clearing house post. We did that dissection back in 2006. Since then I finished my dissertation, got...
If you pick at the rash, that could cause an infection. Researchers have found a link between ETN and eosinophilic esophagitis – a type of inflammation in the pipe that connects your mouth to your stomach. If your child ever has irritation in the esophagus, make sure you remind the doctor...
The tongue and soft palate—the soft part of the roof of your mouth—push food into the throat, which closes off the windpipe. From here, the food travels to the esophagus or swallowing tube. Esophagus The esophagus is a muscular tube that goes from the throat, behind the windpipe, and ...