Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This bolus from an albatross has several ingested flotsam items, including monofilament from fishing nets and a discarded toothbrush. Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals. In digestion, a bolus (from Latin bolus, "ball") is a ball-like mixture of food and saliva that forms in the mouth during the process of chewing (which is largely an adaptation for plant-eating mammals). [1]
In veterinary medicine a bolus is a large time-release tablet that stays in the rumen of cattle, goats, and sheep. It can also refer to a dose of liquid injected subcutaneously with a hypodermic needle, such as saline solution administered either to counteract dehydration or especially to mitigate kidney failure, a common ailment in domestic cats.
Type I formation usually occurs as a response to feeding, but can also be produced continually. When formed in response to feeding, a single matrix is secreted by the midgut epithelium. This matrix surrounds the food bolus and is later excreted along with unwanted materials present in the food bolus after digestion.
Bolus, a type of space tether, in spaceflight; Bolus armenus, an example of a bole (a reddish soft variety of clay used as a pigment) Bolus Herbarium, an herbarium at the University of Cape Town established in 1865 from a donation by Harry Bolus; Bolus hook, an instrument in a Jacquard loom; Zeeuwse Bolus, a pastry from the Netherlands
Other feeding schemes, such as hypocaloric feeding [73] and intermittent feeding, also called bolus feeding were under study. [74] A 2019 meta-analysis found that intermittent feeding may be more beneficial for premature infants, although better designed studies are required to devise clinical practices. [75]
The type of feed the animal consumes affects the amount of saliva that is produced. Though the rumen and reticulum have different names, they have very similar tissue layers and textures, making it difficult to visually separate them. They also perform similar tasks. Together, these chambers are called the reticulorumen.
Breast, bottle, whatever: How You Feed is a shame-free series on how babies eat. Infant feeding has long been fertile ground for some of the internet’s sharpest “mommy wars." It can be enough ...
The bolus is ready for swallowing when it is held together by saliva (largely mucus), sensed by the lingual nerve of the tongue (VII—chorda tympani and IX—lesser petrosal) (V 3). Any food that is too dry to form a bolus will not be swallowed. 3) Trough formation. A trough is then formed at the back of the tongue by the intrinsic muscles (XII).