Obviously I’m aware it’s not actually my tummy but my intestines, but what is the physical mechanism that creates the sounds that come from inside me? If I were having an operation on my abdomen, would they sound very loud? And are there other internal sounds going on in my body that I’m not able to hear, like does my liver make a noise, my uterus, my bone marrow etc?
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The sound is your bowel contents (solid foods, liquids, gas, etc) moving through your GI tract.
Your intestines are surrounded by two layers of muscles that contract and relax to move food material through the GI tract, a process known as peristalsis.
-No, bowel sounds aren’t typically heard during surgeries. However, you can see the intestines contract and relax sometimes.
-Other sounds you can hear (sometimes with the assistance of a stethoscope) are heart sounds (heart beat, murmurs, etc), lung sounds (normal breathing, crackles, wheezing, etc.), or bruits (i.e. A whooshing sound in your larger arteries that is caused by blood flow through an area of thickened/fatty artery.
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