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Barycentric
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Up quark
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Solar eclipse of 11 August 1999
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Treponema pallidum
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Hadron
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Blood group
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Zoophage
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Acetyl-CoA
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Read only memory
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Tidal Gate
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M8
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Chondrule
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Extrasolar
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Dew point
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Thrombocyte
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ActiveX
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Quantum number
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Gondwana
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NEAR-Shoemaker
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Hubble telescope
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Subterminal
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Fischer-Tropsch process
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Nuclear fusion
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The Bohr atom
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Open source software
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Gaviiformes
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African clawed frog
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Regulator
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Theorem
Cardia
The cardia of the stomach is the opening forming the junction between the oesophagus and the stomach.
Function of the cardia
The cardia forms a fold which acts as a functional sphincter, preventing foods rising back from the stomach into the oesophagus. Malfunction of the cardia occasionally causes gastro-oesophageal reflux problems.
The function of the gastric cardia is to prevent reflux into the oesophagus. © mitopencourseware, Flickr, CC by-nc-sa 2.0
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