Why do you vomit bile when it's produced 'downstream' of the stomach ?

Subject: Why do you vomit bile when it's produced 'downstream' of the stomach ?

Date: Thu Oct 25 18:34:21 2001
Posted by Dave Jones
Grade level: undergrad School: North Traffor College
City: Manchester State/Province: No state entered. Country: UK
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 1004049261.Me

Message:


I can't understand how you can vomit bile ! If bile is produced by the liver, 
secreted into the duodenum, how does it get into the stomach ? Presumably it 
can't travel upwards from the bile duct to the duodenum and enter the stomach 
against the flow of chyme ?!?

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