heart pumps more blood per heartbeat, resting heart rate slows, blood volume increases, body can cool itself better, resting blood pressure decrease, metabolism in skeletal muscle enhanced (improved fuel use), increased antioxidant chemicals in body and lowers oxidative stress. muscular strength helps:
This is what I found out by googling.Sigmoid means S shaped. Tortuous means it's more curvy than usual, but rarely has particular significance. A tortuous sigmoid simply means that there are a lot of twists and turns. By itself, this is an anatomical variant and not linked to a specific diseaseHope this helps a bit.
Descending colostomy and sigmoid colostomy. In these procedures, the stoma is on the left lower abdominal wall. The descending colostomy stoma is located just a few inches higher than the stoma for a sigmoid colostomy. A sigmoid colostomy, the most common colostomy type, may be permanent or temporary. Abdominal perineal resection of the rectum is done in patients with distal rectal cancer.