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Eveline Hols
Professor Urban
Zool 2011.17
28 September 2015
Diffusion and Osmosis
Hols 2
Cigarette smoke is also a diffusion that does not work well with the human body. Inhaling the
smoke without smoking can cause severe environmental impact on the human body. The smoke
diffuse with the air and the person breathe it in. Osmosis occurs in several places in the body. For
example, when taking a shower or when taken a bath, it is natural for fingers and toes to be
pruned as a result, cells want to take in the water from the pool or bathtub to make equilibrium.
In the small intestine, osmosis is very significant because the small intestine cells diffuse water
from the small intestine and transport it back to the system. If this did not happened, the water
would go out from our bodies. This is what happened with the choleric bacteria. This bacteria
effects the small intestine because they reverse the small intestines cells ionic orientations. The
meaning of this is that the small intestines cells do not absorb the water because they move the
water out from the body instead and it gives the person deadly watery diarrhea.
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