Describe the causes and effects of gastrointestinal ailments during pregnancy
What will be an ideal response?
Common complaints are nausea, heartburn, indigestion, constipation, hemorrhoids, and weight gain. Proposed causes are many. One ultimate (evolutionary) cause that has been proposed for food aversions is the protection this may afford the developing conceptus from spoiled foods. Proposals for proximate causes include high levels of hCG; high levels of progesterone slowing the intestines; compression of the viscera by the enlarged uterus; and weight gain from enlargement of the breasts, placenta, and uterus.
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A) the ECF becomes hypertonic to the ICF. B) a fluid shift occurs and the volume of the ICF decreases. C) osmolarities of the two fluid compartments fall. D) the volume of the ECF decreases. E) the volume of the ICF decreases.
Epithelium is connected to underlying connective tissue by
A) keratin. B) interfacial canals. C) a basal lamina. D) gap junctions. E) proteoglycans.
The manubrium and xiphoid process fuse to form the bone indicated by ________
In general, lipids are water insoluble
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.