Based on your knowledge of splanchnic circulation, determine why a patient who has been diagnosed with colon cancer may need to be checked for liver cancer
What will be an ideal response?
The digestive organs are drained by a set of veins into the hepatic portal vein. The hepatic portal vein delivers blood to the liver for processing. This patient's cancer may have spread from the colon, through splanchnic circulation, to the liver and established itself as a secondary cancer site.
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The hypothalamic-pituitary portal system transports blood and neurohormones between the
A) Hypothalamus and the heart. B) Hypothalamus and the pituitary gland (after returning to the heart). C) Hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary. D) Hypothalamus and the anterior pituitary.
Centrifugal force is a misnomer. What is really happening when you feel a pull to the outside while rounding a curve?
A. centripetal force B. inertia C. both A and B D. none of the above
In general, freshwater teleosts lay adhesive eggs that remain in one place until they hatch, whereas marine teleosts release free-floating eggs that are carried away by water currents
(There are exceptions to that generalization in both freshwater and marine forms.) What can you infer about differences in the biology of newly hatched freshwater and marine teleosts on the basis of that difference in their reproduction?
Which of the following matrix molecules in cartilage tends to trap large quantities of water?
A. proteoglycan B. hyaluronic acid C. elastin D. collagen E. chondrocytes