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  2. Navel - Wikipedia

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    Outies are sometimes mistaken for umbilical hernias; however, they are a completely different shape with no health concern, unlike an umbilical hernia.The navel (specifically abdominal wall) would be considered an umbilical hernia if the protrusion were 5 centimeters or more.

  3. Dysentery - Wikipedia

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    These differences in definition must be taken into account when defining mechanisms. For example, using the CDC definition requires that intestinal tissue be so severely damaged that blood vessels have ruptured, allowing visible quantities of blood to be lost with defecation. Other definitions require less specific damage. [citation needed]

  4. Stomach - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing parts of the stomach. The human stomach can be divided into four sections, beginning at the cardia followed by the fundus, the body and the pylorus. [7] [8] The gastric cardia is where the contents of the esophagus empty from the gastroesophageal sphincter into the cardiac orifice, the opening into the gastric cardia.

  5. Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates - Wikipedia

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    In these coordinates, the horizon is the black hole horizon (nothing can come out). The diagram for u-r coordinates is the same diagram turned upside down and with u and v interchanged on the diagram. In that case the horizon is the white hole horizon, which matter and light can come out of, but nothing can go in.

  6. Human digestive system - Wikipedia

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    The stomach is a distensible organ and can normally expand to hold about one litre of food. [22] This expansion is enabled by a series of gastric folds in the inner walls of the stomach. The stomach of a newborn baby will only be able to expand to retain about 30 ml.

  7. Cannon-Washburn Hunger Experiment - Wikipedia

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    Cannon and Washburn concluded that stomach contractions play a critical role in signaling hunger to the brain. Their findings suggested that hunger could be alleviated by distending the stomach, even in the absence of food consumption. This discovery provided the first experimental evidence linking hunger to the physiological state of the ...

  8. Helicobacter pylori - Wikipedia

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    Complications of an ulcer can cause severe signs and symptoms such as black or tarry stool indicative of bleeding into the stomach or duodenum; blood - either red or coffee-ground colored in vomit; persistent sharp or severe abdominal pain; dizziness, and a fast heartbeat. [67] [68] Bleeding is the most common complication.

  9. Alexis St. Martin - Wikipedia

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    Finally after 17 days, the food began to stay in St-Martin's stomach and his bowels began to return to their natural functions. [ 4 ] When the wound healed itself, the edge of the hole in the stomach had attached itself to the edge of the hole in the skin, creating a permanent gastric fistula.