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Altering stool color: meat protein
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Dark brown
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Altering stool color: spinach
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Green
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Altering stool color: carrots and beets
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Red
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Altering stool color: coca
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Dark red or brown
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Altering stool color: senna
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Yellow
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Altering stool color: bismuth, iron, licorice, and charcoal
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Black
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Altering stool color: barium
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Milky white
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Division of abdomen into nine quadrants:
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-Epigastric region - umbilical region- hypogastric or suprapubic region- right hypochondriac region- left hypochondriac region- right lumbar region- left lumbar region- right inguinal region- left inguinal region
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Some digestive and gastrointestinal disorders are associated with genetic abnormalities
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- cleft lip and/or palate- familial adenomatous polyposis- hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC)- hirschsprung disease (aganglionic megacolon)- IBD (crohn's disease)- Pyloric stenosis
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Colonic function:
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- bacteria (in large intestine) helps complete breakdown of waste material: undigested or unabsorbed proteins and bile salts
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Colonic secretion: ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION
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(bicarbonate solution) neutralizes the end products formed by colonic bacterial action
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Colonic secretion: MUCUS
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Protects the colonic mucosa and provides adherence for fecal mass(damaged mucus can = damage to blood vessels)
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Primary function of colon:
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Slow transport to allow efficient reabsorption of water and electrolytes (allowed by: slow, weak peristalsis)
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Feces consists of:
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Undigested foodstuffs, inorganic materials, water, and bacteria (75% water) (brown color from breakdown of bile)
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Gases from intestinal tract
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Methane, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia; approximately 150ml and absorbed and detox by liver or expelled as flatus
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