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After food is chewed into a bolus, it is swallowed and moved through the esophagus.
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Bolus grew up in a sports-loving household in the Charleston suburb of Folly Beach.
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I don't think these capsules would be able to take the place of our bolus injections.
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During peristalsis, the ES allows the food bolus to pass into the stomach.
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Bolus tethers give in almost all ways have the same benefits as skyhooks.
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They can be administered all at once as a bolus, at frequent intervals or continuously.
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The large intestine absorbs water from the bolus and stores feces until it can be egested.
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Bolus was operated on and stayed in the hospital in Columbia for a week.
From the charlotteobserver.com
When the bolus enters the mouth, the fluid is squeezed out with the tongue and reswallowed.
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- A small round soft mass (as of chewed food)
- A large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine
- In digestion, a bolus (from Latin bolus, ball) is a mass of food that has been chewed at the point of swallowing. Once a bolus reaches the stomach, digestion begins.
- In medicine, a bolus (from Latin '''', ball) is the administration of a medication, drug or other compound that is given to raise its concentration in blood to an effective level. The administration can be given intravenously, by intramuscular, intrathecal or subcutaneous injection.
- In radiation therapy, bolus is a material which has properties equivalent to tissue when irradiated. It is widely used in practice, with its function falling into one of the following two categories: It must be possible to mould the bolus to fill the tissue space. ...
- A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal; A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form
- A mass of chewed food mixed with salivary secretions that is propelled into the espohagus during the swallowing phase of digestion.
- A concentrated amount of drug; a dose injected rapidly into a vein, a rounded mass of matter.
- Dose of insulin which is delivered before or during a meal to cover glucose from the food or to lower elevated blood glucose levels.
