For Duodenum we have terms and definitions in 10 topics. The topics are Biology, Cancer, Dairy Production, Health, Horse Health, Liver, Biliary and Pancreatic Di, Medical, Microbiology, Naturopathic and Quitting Smoking.

Duodenum (Biology)

The first 10 to 12 inches of the small intestine in which most of the chemical digestion takes place.

Duodenum (Cancer)

The first portion of the small intestine, attached to the stomach.(The part food enters immediately after it leaves the stomach).After foods combine with stomach acid, they descend into the duodenum where they mix with bile from the gall bladder and digestive juices from the pancreas. See small intestine

Duodenum (Dairy Production)

First part of the small intestine. The secretions of the liver and pancreas are discharged into the duodenum.

Duodenum (Health)

The first section of the small intestine.

Duodenum (Horse Health)

The first part of the small intestine, connecting the stomach with the jejunum.

Duodenum (Liver, Biliary and Pancreatic Di)

The first section of the small intestine.

Duodenum (Medical)

The first part of the small intestine, immediately following the stomach

Duodenum (Microbiology)

The proximal portion of the small intestine (Strongyloides stercoralis, Giardia lamblia).

Duodenum (Naturopathic)

This is the beginning of the small intestines, and it empties the stomach. It is 9 or 10 inches long, holds about the same amount of food as the digestive antrum or bottom of the stomach, and, through a papilla or sphincter, squirts a mixture of bile and pancreatic juices onto the previous stomach contents. These juices neutralize the acidic chyme; the pancreatic alkali and bile acids form soap to emulsify and aid fat digestion; and the duodenum walls secrete additional fluids and enzymes to admix with the pancreatic enzymes to initiate the final upper digestive investment. The duodenal wall secretes blood hormones to excite gallbladder and pancreas secretions, and, if overwhelmed, can inhibit the stomach from sending anything else down for a while, until they can catch all their collective breath.

Duodenum (Quitting Smoking)

The first part of the small intestine. The duodenum extends from the pylorus at the bottom of the stomach to the jejunum, the second part of the small intestine. The duodenum is a common site for the formation of peptic ulcers. We often live with words without thinking where they come from or what they originally meant. That is the case for me with the duodenum. For decades, this writer knew the duodenum as a short but troubled sector of the small intestine. Only today did I learn that the duodenum began as the dodeka-daktulon, twelve fingers to the Greeks, who astutely observed that the duodenum is about 12 finger-breadths long. In German, the popular term for duodenum is Zwölffingerdarm, the 12-finger intestine.

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