Accessory organs of digestion

Question 1

What quadrant is the liver in?

Answer 1

Right upper quadrant. directly below the diaphragm

Question 2

What are the functions of the liver?

Answer 2

Glucose storage, protein, lipoprotein and cholesterol synthesis, production of bile and bile salts, storage of fat, toxin and drug metabolism and excretion

Question 3

What are the four lobes of the liver?

Answer 3

right, left, cuadate and quadrate

Question 4

What liver lobes are anterior?

Answer 4

Right and left

Question 5

Which is the superior lobe, cuadate or quadrate?

Answer 5

Cuadate

Question 6

What are the regions of the gall bladder?

Answer 6

Fundus, body and neck

Question 7

What does the neck of the gall bladder lead into?

Answer 7

The cystic duct

Question 8

What does the biliary tree do?

Answer 8

For the flow of bile

Question 9

What are some functions of bile?

Answer 9

Bicarbonate content decreases pH of the gastric contents released from the stomach. Emulsion of fats by bile salts increases SA of insoluble nutrients to raise rate of digestion

Question 10

What cells produce bile?

Answer 10

Hepatocytes

Question 11

Where is bile stored and concentrated?

Answer 11

The gall bladder

Question 12

When is bile needed in the small intestine?

Answer 12

After a high fat meal

Question 13

What runs between each layer of hepatocytes?

Answer 13

Sinusoids

Question 14

What are small channels between hepatocyte cells called?

Answer 14

Canaliculi

Question 15

What does bile drain from the liver in?

Answer 15

The right and left hepatic ducts

Question 16

What do the right and left hepatic ducts join to form?

Answer 16

The common hepatic duct

Question 17

What joins the common hepatic duct to form the common bile duct?

Answer 17

The cystic duct from the gall bladder

Question 18

The common bile duct goes into where?

Answer 18

The descending duodenum

Question 19

What stimulates the gall bladder to contract?

Answer 19

Food in the small intestine

Question 20

What is the name of the combination of the ducts?

Answer 20

The biliary tract

Question 21

Where does the main pancreatic duct join the common bile duct?

Answer 21

The hepatopancreatic ampulla

Question 22

Where does the pancreas lie?

Answer 22

Horizontally across the posterior abdominal wall

Question 23

What are the 5 regions of the pancreas?

Answer 23

The uncinate process, head, neck, body and tail

Question 24

Which tissues of the pancreas release pancreatic juice?

Answer 24

Exocrine tissues

Question 25

What are the two components of pancreatic juice?

Answer 25

Alkaline secretion and enzyme rich secretion

Question 26

Sympathetic innervation of the pancreas….

Answer 26

decreases secretions

Question 27

Where are pancreatic enzymes secreted into?

Answer 27

The acinar. modified in the ducts

Question 28

What duct transports pancreatic juice to the duodenum?

Answer 28

The main pancreatic duct

Question 29

What is the sphincter that controls the entrance of the hepatopancreatic ducts into the duodenum?

Answer 29

The sphincter of oddi