Sentences with phrase «so stomach contents»

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So instead of keeping the contents of the stomach where they belong between swallows or after a feeding, it can sometimes allow breastmilk or formula to flow back into the esophagus.

Taking so much fluid into their stomach can cause the stomach to distend or cause the contents to come back up into the esophagus.

Mayo Clinic noted that reflux in infants is so common because a baby's lower esophageal sphincter, the ring of muscle between the esophagus and stomach, is not fully mature yet, leading your infant's stomach contents to flow backward.

Lead author, Dr Pamela Gill of the University of Bristol, said: «None of the fossils of the earliest mammals have the sort of exceptional preservation that includes stomach contents to infer diet, so instead we used a range of new techniques which we applied to our fossil finds of broken jaws and isolated teeth.

LES is basically the band of muscles that keeps stomach contents from leaking into the esophagus, so proper control of it is essential to prevent acid reflux.

Fat decreases stomach emptying rate, yet the upper stomach valve is not much of a valve, so when the lower stomach valve locks down to slow gastric emptying from fat, the churning of the stomach muscles force acid stomach contents through the upper valve causing GERD.

Seven: Take all the various elements and arrange them on the board in an artsy way, mixing colors across the board so the eye (and the stomach) travels easily across the board's contents.

The type of prey wolves tend to hunt are generally herbivores so, in consuming the stomach contents of their prey, wolves do end up eating some plant material.

For pets, the tripe, so - called green tripe, has not been — or should not be — bleached or scalded and will include some of the stomach's last contents.

GASTRIC DILATATION, an excess build - up of food and gas causes the stomach to rapidly expand or dilate; and GASTRIC DILATATION VOLVULUS (GDV), after expanding the stomach actually turns along its long axis and thereby twists the esophagus and small intestine closed so there is no passage of stomach contents or gas in or out of the stomach.