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.
The ear, for example, has ampullae â the plural of ampulla â in it. Ampullae are important parts of the body that tend to serve as a holding place for something moving through the body, as a juncture where chemical reactions or other activities can occur, or as a sensory organ.t is here that a woman's egg typically meets sperm if fertilization is to occur. The ampulla contains muscle and hair-like structures called cilia to help move a fertilized egg toward the uterus. An unfertilized egg, however, will degenerate in the ampulla. Ampullae also exist in other animals.