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The digestive system

Author: Michael Windelspecht
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Series: Human body systems (Westport, Conn.)
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Examines the role and function of the human digestive system.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Windelspecht
ISBN: 0313326800 9780313326806 0313331197 9780313331190
OCLC Number: 54415314
Description: xx, 191 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Digestion at the cellular and molecular level -- The upper gastrointestinal tract: oral cavity, esophagus, and stomach -- The lower gastrointestinal tract: small intestine and colon -- The accessory organs -- History of the digestive system: ancients to the renaissance -- History of the digestive system: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries -- History of the digestive system: twentieth century to the present -- Diseases and ailments of the oral cavity and esophagus -- Diseases and ailments of the stomach -- diseases and ailments of the small and large intestine -- Diseases and ailments of the accessory glands -- Cancer of the digestive system.
Series Title: Human body systems (Westport, Conn.)
Responsibility: Michael Windelspecht.

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Examines the role and function of the human digestive system.

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