24-Digestion Flashcards
GI Accessory Organs - 6
Teeth, Tongue, Salivary glands, Liver, Pancreas, Gall bladder
GI Tract organs - 6
Mouth, Pharynx, Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine, Large Intestine
GI Tract basic processes - 6
Ingestion, Secretion,
Mixing and Propulsion,
Digestion, Absorption,
Defecation
Layers of the GI tract - 4, one special exception
Mucosa Submucosa Muscularis Serosa In Esophagus, Serosa replaced by Adventitia
Mucosa Layer sublayers - 3
Epithelium - protection, secretion, absorption
Lamina Propria - MALT
Muscularis Mucosae - rugal folds in stomach, sm. intestines
Submucosal layer contains - 2
Nerves/vessels
Submucosal Plexus - for secretion
Muscularis layer - 2 types of muscle & where, 2 layers of muscle, plexus
Skeletal muscle - mouth, pharynx, superior/middle esophagus, external sphincter
Smooth muscle - Lower esophagus, stomach, intestines
Inner circular muscle, outer longitudinal muscle
Myenteric Plexus - motility
Enteric nervous system - 2 plexuses, nerves from where
Myenteric - in Muscularis, for Motility
Submucosal - in submucosa, for secretions
Parasympathetic - Vagus (X), plus splanchnic nerves (sacral)
Retroperitoneal organs - 5
Ascending colon, descending colon, kidneys, pancreas, doudenum
Peritoneal folds - 5
Greater Omentum Lesser Omentum Falciform Mesentery Mesocolon
uvula - does what
blocks nasal cavity from receiving food being swallowed
Salivary glands - 3 + what released
Parotid - in front of ears
Submandibular - deep under tongue, posterior to sublingual, releases salivary amylase
Sublingual - under tongue, anterior
Salivary amylase - breaks down complex carbs
Increase/decrease salivation
Decrease - sympathetic nervous system
Increase - smell, taste, touch, thought of food
Tongue intrinsic/extrinsic muscles for what
Intrinsic - speech
Extrinsic - everything else
Tongue lingual glands secrete
Lingual lipase - acts on dietary triglycerides
Tooth parts - 3 areas, 5 parts
Crown, neck, root
Enamel - hard coating on top, hardest part of body
dentin - gives tooth its shape, majority of tooth
pulp - blood supply, nerves, lymph
apical foramen - root canal through bone
root - embed each tooth into a socket, cementum to attach to periodontal ligament