Before Anesthesia. It is necessary to have an empty stomach before receiving general anesthesia. In most cases, patients are required to abstain from eating and drinking after midnight on the night before their scheduled surgery to reduce the chances of vomiting while under anesthesia. When a person is under general anesthesia, the body does not work normally.
Definition of AMPULLA OF LORENZINI. : any of the pores on the snouts of marine sharks and rays that contain receptors highly sensitive to weak electric fields.
Location: Large hemisphere of muscle, caudal to the eye Function: closes the mouthby elevating Meckel's Cartilage Insertion: Meckel's Cartilage Origin: Posterior Part of the palatoquadrate cartilage Ampullae of Lorenzini