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What is the entrance to the GI tract?

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Oral cavity (mouth)

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What is the initial site of mechanical digestion through mastication and chemical digestion?

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mouth

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What are the 2 distinct regions found within the oral cavity?

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Vestibule and oral cavity proper

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What is the vestibule in the mouth?

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Space between the cheeks/lips and gums

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What is the oral cavity proper found?

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Central to the alveolar processes of the mandible and maxillae

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What forms the lateral walls of the oral cavity?

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Cheeks

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What does the buccinator muscles do?

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Compress the cheeks against the cheeks to hold solid materials in place while chewing

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What are the lips?

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Area where the cheeks terminate and are formed by the orbicularis oris muscle and are covered by a thin layer of keratinized stratified epithelium

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Why do lips have a reddish hue?

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Abundant supply of superficial blood vessels and reduced amount of keratin within the outer skin

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What are gingivae?

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Gingivae are the gums; they are composed of dense regular connective tissue with an overlying stratified epithelium covering the alveolar processes of the upper and lower jaws

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What is the labial frenulum?

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A thin mucosal fold that attaches the superior and inferior lips to the gingivae at the midline

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What does the palate separate the oral cavity from?

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Nasal cavity

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What is the hard palate?

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Anterior 2/3 of the palate formed by the palatine processes of the maxillae and palatine bones

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What do the transverse palatine folds (friction ridges) perform?

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Assist the tongue in manipulating ingested materials prior to swallowing

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What does the soft palate and uvula do during swallowing?

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Soft palate and uvula elevate to close off the posterior entrance to the nasopharynx and prevent ingested materials from entering the nasal region

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What are palatine tonsils?

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Early line of defense that monitors ingested food/drink for antigens and can initiate an immune response if necessary

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What is the tongue?

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An accessory digestive organ formed by skeletal muscle that participates in sound production

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What does the tongue do in digestion?

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Manipulate and mix ingested materials during shewing and helps compress the partially digested materials against the hard palate to turn materials in bolus

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What is a bolus?

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Globular mass of partially digested materials

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What is the lingual frenulum?

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A thin, vertical mucous membrane that attaches the inferior surface of the tongue to the floor of the oral cavity

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What do salivary glands do?

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Produce and secrete saliva

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How much saliva is secreted daily?

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1-1.5 L a day

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What are the functions of saliva?

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Moisten ingested food, moisten and clean oral cavity structures, aid in chemical digestion, inhibit bacterial growth, and dissolves food to stimulate taste

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What is amylase?

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A salivary enzyme that begins chemical digestion by breaking down starch

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What are lysolyzes?

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an antibacterial substance that inhibits bacterial growth in the oral cavity

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What are the 3 pairs of salivary glands?

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Parotid salivary glands, submandibular glands, and sublingual salivary glands

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What are the largest salivary glands?

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Parotid salivary glands

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When infected with mumps, what happens to the parotid salivary glands?

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Become swollen

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Which salivary gland is used in “gleeking”?

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Submandibular salivary glands

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What division of the ANS innervates salivary glands?

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Parasympathetic

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CN VII innervates what salivary glands?

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Facial nerve innervates submandibular and sublingual glands

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Glossopharyngeal nerve innervates which salivary gland?

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Parotid

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What do parasympathetic and sympathic innervation do to salivary glands?

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Parasympathetic stimulates salivary gland secretion while sympathetic innervations inhibit secretion and cause dry mouth in frightened people

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What are teeth responsible for in mechanical digestion?

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Mastication

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What are the 3 components of a tooth?

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Crown, Neck, and Roots

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36
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Where do the root of teeth fit into?

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Dental alveoli

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What form the gomphosis joint?

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Root of teeth, dental alveoli, and periodontal ligaments

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What are deciduous teeth?

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Milk teeth that erupt 6-30 months after births

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What are permanent teeth?

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32 teeth that replace deciduous teeth starting with the anterior teeth and moving to the posterior teeth

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what are the last teeth to appear?

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3rd molars (wisdom teeth)

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41
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What are incisors?

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Anteriorly placed teeth designed for slicing/cutting into food that are shaped like a chisel

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What are canines?

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Posterolateral teeth to the incisors with a pointed tip responsible for puncturing and tearing food; “eye teeth”

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What are the premolars (bicuspids)?

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Teeth with flat crowns that have ridges (cusps) that crush and grind ingested materials

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What are molars?

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thickest teeth with large, broad, flat crowns also designed for crushing and grinding ingested materials

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How many of each teeth are found in 1 quadrant?

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2 incisors, 1 canine, 2 premolars, and 3 molars

46
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How may teeth be lost?

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trauma, disease, age

47
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What is a common space used by both the respiratory and digestive system?

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Pharynx

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What 3 skeletal muscle pairs form the pharynx?

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Superior, middle, and inferior pharyngeal constrictors

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What nerve innervates most pharyngeal muscles?

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CN X (vagus)

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What does the parietal peritoneum cover?

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Inside surface of the body wall

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What part of the peritoneum covers the surface of internal organs?

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Visceral peritoneum

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What are organs covered by the visceral peritoneum called? Which organs are these?

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Intraperitoneal organs are the stomach, jejunum, ileum, cecum, appendix, and the majority of the large intestines

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What are the organs covered by the parietal peritoneum called? Which organs are these?

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Retroperitoneal organs are the kidneys, pancreas, duodenum, ascending colon, descending colon, and rectum

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What are mesenteries?

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Double-layered folds of peritoneum that support and stabilize the intraperitoneal GI tract organs with blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves

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What are 5 types of mesenteries?

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Greater omentum, lesser omentum, mesentery proper, mesocolon, and peritoneal ligament

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What is the greater omentum?

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Mesentery that extends like an apron from the greater curvature of the stomach and covers most abdominal organs

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What is the lesser omentum?

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Mesentery that connects the lesser curvature of the stomach to the proximal end of the duodenum to the liver

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What is the mesentery proper?

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fan-shaped mesentery of peritoneum that suspends most of the small intestines from the internal surface of the posterior abdominal wall

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What is the mesocolon?

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Fold in the peritoneum that attaches part of the large intestines to the internal surface of the posterior abdominal wall

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What is the peritoneal ligament?

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Type of mesentery that attaches one organ to another organ, and an organ to the abdominal wall

61
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What does the falciform ligament do?

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Attaches the liver to the anterior abdominal wall

62
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What are the 4 tunics that compose the GI tract from the esophagus to the large intestines?

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Mucosa (mucous membrane), submucosa, muscularis, adventitia/serosa

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What is the mucosa membrane of the tunics?

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Innermost layer with absorptive and secretory functions and contains epithelium, connective tissue, and smooth muscle

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What is the submucosa tunic?

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Dense irregular connective tissue that contains accumulatons of lymphatic tissue, mucin-secreting glands, large blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerve plexus

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What is responsible for peristaltic movements through the GI tract?

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Muscularis

66
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What do sphincters do?

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Close off the lumen at some points in the GI tract and controls the movement of materials along the GI tract

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What is adventitia?

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Loose connective tissue with dispersed collagen and connective tissue with dispersed collagen and elastic fibers

68
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What makes serosa different from adventita?

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Serosa is also covered by a visceral peritoneum

69
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How does parasympathetic innervation promote digestive activity?

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Stimulates GI gland secretions, peristalsis, and relaxation of GI sphincters

70
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What is the esophagus?

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A tubular passageway for swallowing materials bring conducted from the pharynx to the stomach

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What is the esophageal hiatus?

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Inferior region of the esophagus that connects to the stomach trough the diaphragm

72
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Where is most of the length of the esophagus found?

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Within the thorax anterior to the vertebral bodies

73
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The esophageal has thick walls composed of concentric tunics that are continuous with what other body structures?

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Pharynx and stomach

74
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When there is no bolus passing through the esophagus, what happens to it?

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Esophagus becomes flat

75
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What can a bolus do to the trachealis muscle?

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Causes the trachealis to bulge into the trachea

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What two sphincters are associated with the esophagus?

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Superior esophageal sphincter and inferior esophageal sphincter

77
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What does the superior esophageal sphincter do?

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Closes during inhalation of air so it wont enter the esophagus, but instead travel to the trachea and larynx

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What does the inferior esophageal sphincter do since its too weak to prevent materials from refluxing back into the esophagus?

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Inferior esophageal sphincter acts as a support to prevent materials from regurgitating from the stomach not the stomach

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What is degluttion?

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Swallowing; process of moving ingested material from the oral cavity to the stomach

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What is the stomach?

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J-shaped sac that occupies the upper left quadrant of the abdomen inferior to the diaphragm

81
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What is the function of the stomach?

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Chemically and mechanically digest a food bolus

82
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What is chyme?

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Bolus after it has been processed within the stomach and becomes a paste-like soup

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How is mechanical digestion facilitated within the stomach?

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Contractions of the muscularis layer churns and mixes the bolus and gastric secretions

84
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What are the 4 regions of the stomach?

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Cardia, fundus, body, and pyloris

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What is the cardia?

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A small, narrow, superior entryway into the stomach lumen from esophagus

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What is the cardiac orifice?

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Internal opening where the cardia meets the esophagus

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What is the fundus?

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dome-shaped region that is lateral and superior to esophageal connection with the stomach with the superior surface touching the diaphragm

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What is the body of the stomach?

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Largest region of the stomach inferior to cardiac orifice and fundus

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What is the pyloris?

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Narrow, medially-directed, funnel-shaped pouch that forms the terminal region of the stomach

90
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What is the pyloric orifice?

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Opening to the duodenum from the stomach

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What is the pyloric sphincter?

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Sphincter that regulates material form entering the small intestine by closing during sympathetic innervation and opening during parasympathetic innervation

92
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The inferior, convex border of the stomach is the _____ while the superio, concave border is the _____

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Greater curvature; lesser curvature

93
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Where does the greater omentum attach?

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Greater curvature of the stomach

94
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Where does the lesser omentum extend from?

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Lesser curvature of the stomach to the liver

95
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What are gastric rugae (gastric folds)?

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Found on the internal stomach lining that allows the stomach to expand when full, and return to its normal shape when empty

96
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What are small intestines responsible for?

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Finishing chemical digestion and absorbing nutrients

97
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Why do ingested materials spend at least 12 hours within the small intestines?

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Complete chemical digestion and maximize amount of nutrients absorbed

98
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How long are the small intestines in a dead who recently died?

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20 feet long

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What artery supplies blood to the small intestines?

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Superior mesenteric artery

100
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Where does venous drainage of the small intestine travel to?

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Hepatic portal vein

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What are the 3 regions of the small intestines?

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Duodenum, jejunum, and ileum

102
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What is the duodenum?

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10 inch long formation of the small intestines originating from pyloric sphincter

103
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Where does the duodenum become continuous with the jejunum?

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Duodenojejunal flexure

104
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What is the major duodenal papilla?

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Entryway for bile from the liver and pancreatic juice from the pancreas into the duodenum

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What is the jejunum?

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2/5 of the small intestine’s entire length (roughly 7.5 ft) that is the primary region for chemical digestion and nutrient absorbtion

106
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What is the ileum?

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Final 3/5 of the small intestines that terminates at the ileocecal valve

107
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What is the ileocecal valve?

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A sphincter that controls entry of material into large intestines

108
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What are Peyer Patches?

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Numerous aggregates of lymph nodes found on the walls of ileum

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