You only have one life.One life to be the best you can be ,one life to be remembered by, one life.I am in love with the violin. i am in love with medical things. My mom died from cancer when i was 13 andi havnt been the same since. She told me that i could not play the violin so i got private lessons i am one of the best in my orchestra since then all i wanted to do was play music i loved the way it made me feel. But my feelings changed fast when i discovered the human anatomy. at first it was hard to watch medical things because of my mom.But i started watching shows like scrubs and greys anatomy and house and loved them.. i love the lab coats i want to save peoples lifes i want to be a seargin i understand the school that u have to go threw the debt i will be in i understand. But i want to save lives.colon cancer runs in my family and i am confident that i wont die if i understand it if i get sreeened for polyps. ik that i can save lives and like blood and i do research on nuerology and hearts and everything. but i love music and all of my friends are going to music school i do nt want to make a mistake and go to med school and think i made the rong decisian i also dont wanna go to music school and miss out on the oppurtunity of med school im 15 and time is running out idk wat to do.

I’m taking an Anatomy and Physiology class and we just hit the section about the Digestive system. My book is doing a very bad job of explaining half of it. I feel rather silly asking this question, but what is exactly is the difference? Is the large intestine also the colon? Is it a part of the large intestine?

Thank you for taking the time to look at this question and for your answers. =]

I am now 20 and have had pain right below my left rib cage for over a year and a half now. It’s a very sharp pain. Just recently it has felt like a bruise, when nothing visible was there. sometimes it will feel like there is a cut right below my rib, and still nothing visible. These pains will come and go, sometimes lasting days sometimes minutes. I thought of the pain as a broken rib on my left side protruding through my external oblique. I went to the doctor and had an x-ray and they found nothing at all. I can feel an abnormal bump..all most like the last false rib was turned sideways, but again the doc could not feel what i can. Just recently my fiance felt it, assuring me that I wasn’t over reacting. I feel that I have some sort of digestive problem. Although I’m not sure if it relates. I think (DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW) that there is a problem with my parastalsis after I eat. Instead of burping, it’s like I growl. The air slowly comes back up bouncing off the walls because of the waves caused by ongoing parastlsis when the food has all ready been passed through. Also, my bowl movements are not always regular. Sometimes I do feel constipated when I shouldn’t because my diet is pretty much the same. I have looked at an anatomy book and the colon is located directly in the area that hurts, But I’m not for sure if that is what it is. Please help me figure out what is wrong. I have found several others with my symptoms, but yet they too have not found any diagnosis. I feel so helpless and frustrated.

I asked a question if squatting is the proper way of defecating, and a doctor in this section responded: "So you are blissfully unaware of human anatomy, huh? Putting the knees above the colon would make things much worse. Standing would actually be the best in terms of physiology… however, most people without a toilet would squat so low as to not get **** all over themselves. Or is that too obvious?"

SO, is it anatomy or physiology then that is the issue with squatting? How would putting the knees above the colon make things worse? Because he was able to type that it is self evidently true? How, PHYSIOLOGICALLY does standing change anything for the better? Does he know what the difference between anatomy and physiology is?

Pardon the "anatomy speak." It’s just cleaner language. But your help is greatly appreciated.