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| •ADVERSE CONDITION RESULTING FROM TREATMENT BY A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER |
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| •CECUM, COLON, AND RECTUM |
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•LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER
•GROUP OF VERY STRONG CIRCULAR MUSCLE FIBERS LOCATED JUST ABOVE THE STOMACH |
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| •HOW WELL THE PATIENT PREPARES THE FOOD FOR SWALLOWING |
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| •MICROORGANISMS LIVING IN THE LARGE INTESTINE |
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| •MINUTE CYLINDRICAL PROCESSES LOCATED ON THE SURFACE OF THE INTESTINAL CELLS, GREATLY INCREASING THEIR ABSORPTIVE SURFACE AREA |
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•MOVEMENT OF WATER FROM AN AREA OF LOWER SOLUTE CONCENTRATION TO A HIGHER SOLUTE CONCENTRATION
•WHEN SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS IN THE BODY ARE DIFFERENT, WATER MOVES ACROSS THE MEMBRANE |
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| •ENZYMES THAT HYDROLYZE CARBS, PROTEINS, AND FATS |
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| •INVOLUNTARY RHYTHMIC WAVES OF CONTRACTION TRAVELING THE LENGTH OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT |
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| •DYSGEUSIA WITHOUT IDENTIFIABLE TASTE STIMULI |
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| •NONDIGESTIBLE FOOD INGREDIENTS HAVING BENEFICIAL EFFECTS ON THE HOST BY STIMULATING GROWTH OR ACTIVITY OF PROBIOTICS IN THE COLON |
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| •PRODUCTS CONTAINING LIVE BACTERIA THAT AID IN RESTORING AND MAINTAINING AN INTESTINAL BALANCE OF HEALTHFUL BACTERIA |
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| •FUNCTION TO HYDROLYZE PROTEINS |
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| •RESTORATION OR RETURN OF CALCIUM, PHOSPHATES, AND OTHER MINERALS INTO AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN DAMAGED BY INCIPIENT CARES, ABRASION, OR EROSION |
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| •TOTAL AMOUNT OF FECAL SOLIDS, INCLUDED UNDIGESTED OR UNABSORBED FOOD, AND METABOLIC (BILE PIGMENTS) AND BACTERIAL PRODUCTS |
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| •DUODENUM, JEJUNUM, AND ILEUM |
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| •ANY OF THE RING-LIKE MUSCLES ENCIRCLING AN OPENING THAT IS ABLE TO CONTRACT TO CLOSE THE OPENING , SUCH AS THE SPHINCTER PYLORI BETWEEN THE STOMACH AND THE SMALL INTESTINE |
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| •DISEASE OR DISORDER THAT AFFECTS THE WHOLE BODY |
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| •MIXING OF PROBIOTICS AND PREBIOTICS |
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| •RECEPTORS FOR THE SENSE OF TASTE |
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| •CIRCULAR MUSCLES IN THE GI TRACT THAT REGULATE THE FLOW OF BOLUS BETWEEN DIFFERENT SEGMENTS |
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| •DRYNESS OF THE MOUTH RESULTING FROM INADEQUATE SALIVARY SECRETION |
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