Institute of Human Anatomy
Understanding Bowel Obstructions: My Personal Experience
In this video, the teacher shares a personal story about his experience with a small bowel obstruction. He provides an overview of the digestive system and explains the different types of bowel obstructions. He discusses the symptoms,...
JJ Medicine
Vitamin C: Why we need it, dietary sources, and how we absorb and metabolize it
Lesson on Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid), metabolic pathways that require vitamin C, dietary sources of vitamin C, and the physiology of absorption and metabolism of vitamin C. Vitamin C is an essential water-soluble vitamin that is required...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Mouthless Parasites That Make Their Home In Worm Guts
You’ve heard those worm horror stories, right? Stories of painful stomach cramps or diarrhea or nausea that eventually turns out to be caused by some worms that have taken up residence in someone’s intestines. It’s so terrifying and wild...
Curated Video
I WONDER - Is All Bacteria Bad?
This video is answering the question of Is all bacteria bad.
Bizarre Beasts
How The Wombat Poops Cubes
Wombats are chubby, adorable Australian marsupials with a lot of great adaptations for their specific environment and lifestyle, and that includes pooping little cubes.
Mazz Media
Digestive System
In this live-action program viewers will learn that the digestive system is a group of organs working together to convert food into energy and nutrients to allow the body to function, grow and repair it. Students will come to understand...
Professor Dave Explains
Typhoid Fever Salmonella typhi
Typhoid fever can be a very serious illness, and we may have already heard of it because of Typhoid Mary, a famous carrier in the beginning of the 20th century. Let's go in for a closer look!
60 Second Histories
Canopic jars
An Egyptian high priest describes the organs that are retained from the body during the mummification process, and explains how they are stored in canopic jars.
Curated Video
Ensuring Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
In this lesson you will learn how to ensure pronoun-antecedent agreement by making sure they agree in gender and number.
Curated Video
Expert explains the danger of the radioactive element linked to a former spy's death.
HEADLINE: The deadly effects of Polonium poisoning
CAPTION: A USC professor answers the basic questions surrounding the radioactive element that killed a Russian spy. (Dec. 1)
Curated Video
Expert on radiation comments on the effects of polonium in humans
1. Doctor Colin Hill, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at University of Southern California, looking at X-rays
2. Close of Doctor Hill
3. Close-up of X-ray on display board
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor Colin Hill, Associate...
TED-Ed
What's the Big Deal with Gluten?
Is gluten-free just a fad? What is gluten anyway, and why can't some of us process it? This is the perfect video to break down the anatomy of gluten and the various diseases and symptoms caused by the notorious protein, as...
Bite Sci-zed
Digestion of a Hamburger
How do bodies digest all of the parts of a hamburger? An interesting video follows a hamburger through the digestive system, showing the pathway of digestion and explaining how each of the components of a hamburger—the bun, the meat, and...
Be Smart
It's Okay to Fart (The Science of Flatulence)
Like it or not, passing gas is part of life ... almost all life! Flatulence has many different purposes in different species including communication, defense, and buoyancy. Pupils learn where farts come from and what contributes to their...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Cancer and Cell Fate in the Intestinal Epithelium
What happens when intestinal epithelia receive the wrong directions during differentiation? Discover how tumors form in the intestinal lining using a narrated video. The resource shows both normal and cancerous growth using specially...
TED-Ed
How Your Digestive System Works
Ever wonder why it takes awhile to feel full when you eat a meal or snack? Follow food in its fantastic, 40-hour journey through your body with a video about the digestive system! Young anatomists explore the process of digestion,...
American Chemical Society
What Happens When You Eat Too Much?
Overeating has both physical and mental consequences. Scholars learn the body's reaction to eating and how it determines when enough is enough. The installment of the ACS Reactions playlist explores both physiological and neurological...
Crash Course
The Digestive System
The human body produces about 1.7 liters of saliva a day to aid in digestion. The digestive systems of different organisms are examined in a video that follows the digestive path, beginning with acids, moves to the importance of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Growth and Metabolism: Digesting Food
Get an overview of three of the key macromolecules of life (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates), and how they get digested and absorbed.
Crash Course
Crash Course: The Incredible, Smellable Science of Your Farts
Behind every fart (and poop) is an army of gut bacteria undergoing some crazy (and crazy useful) biochemistry. Learn what they have in common with beer brewing, and why we'd want to know about this science anyway. [4:53]