Alimentary 1 - Oral Cavity Flashcards
What do herbivores digest?
What do they need to digest this?
Cellulose
Fermentation chamber
What do carnivores digest?
What do they need to digest this?
Proteins
Enzymatic breakdown to AA
Proteins are degraded by?
Gastric pepsin
Pancreatic trypsin
chymotrypsin
Lipids are degraded into?
By what?
Fatty acids
Glycerol
by pancreatic lipase and bile salts
Carbs are degraded into?
By?
Simple sugars
pancreatic amylase
Single AA and small Peptides are absorbed by?
SI enterocytes
Where is most water reabsorbed?
SI
What part of the GI secretes potassium, chloride, and bicarb?
LI
What are your 5 portals of entry?
Ingestion Coughed up then swallowed Hematogenous Parasite migration Bowel Rupture/perf
Defense Mechanisms
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Saliva Resident Microflora Gastric pH Vomiting Increased peristalsis during diarrhea Secretions from liver and pancreas Intestinal proteolytic enzymes High rate of epithelial turnover Innate Immunity Adaptive immunity
What are your 2 developmental anomalies?
Palatoschisis
Cheiloschisis
What is it called when there is a failure of fusion of the lateral palatine processes?
Palatoschisis
What are some reasons for a palatoschisis?
Genetic mutation=spontaneous, hereditary, or toxin induced
Steroid admin during pregnancy in primates have been linkied.
What is considered to be a severe palatoschisis?
When it involves both the hard and soft palate
If you have a patient that is starving and/or aspirate pneumonia, why would you want to exam their oral cavity?
To see if they have a palatoschisis
What condition could interfere with suckling?
Cleft lip
Cheiloschisis
Def of Erosion
Partial thickness loss of epithelium
Ulcer Def
Full thickness necrosis of epithelium