Sentences with phrase «through small ducts»

The liver makes between 600 — 900 mls of bile each day, and what is not sent during meals to the duodenum (beginning of your small bowel) directly via the liver's main duct to emulsify fat, it is diverted through a smaller duct (branching off the main liver duct) to the gallbladder for storage until required.

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Alveoli are small clusters of cells, and these cells produce the milk in the breasts and transport the milk down through the ducts and to the nipples.

Bile is passed through ducts that run from the liver to the duodenum, a section of the small intestine.

This hormone prompts the gallbladder to send bile through ducts and into the small intestine.

The most common cause of acute pancreatitis is the presence of gallstones — small, pebble - like substances made of hardened bile — that cause inflammation in the pancreas as they pass through the common bile duct.

I have been experiencing a majority of these symptoms for many years and finally, through much testing and elimination of other diseases, discovered a small polyp near the duct of my gallbladder.

As bile makes its way through the small intestine to the large intestine via the bile ducts, it progressively changes color from green to yellow to brown.

They are positioned just under the skin and connect to the anus through small canals or ducts.

You cat's liver contains a system of branched conduits (its biliary tree) leading to its gall bladder and on out into its upper small intestine (duodenum) through its bile duct.

A full anal gland is the size of a small grape and has a narrow duct through which secretions drain into the anus.

In response to hormonal signals, the gall bladder contracts and expels the bile through a tube (the common bile duct) into the small intestine, where it performs such necessary digestive processes as the breaking down of dietary fats so that they can be absorbed into a cat's body and the processing of harmful toxins so that they are unable to be absorbed.

Styx's small stature lets him hide under tables with ease, sneak through small tunnels that seem to basically be air ducts where none are needed, while locked doors can be picked and rafters abused by those wanting to feel like Batman without playing the Arkham games.