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Alimentary Canal Flashcards

1
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It is the breakdown id ingested food and the absorption of nutrients into the blood

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Digestion

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2
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• production of cellular energy (ATP)
• constructive and drgradative cellular activities

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Metabolism

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ATP stands for?

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Adenosine Triphosphate

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2 main groups of the Digestive system

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• alimentary canal
• accessory digestive organ

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Organs of the alimentary canal

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• mouth
•pharynx
• esophagus
•stomach
•small intestine
•large intestine
• anus

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6
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Protect the anterior opening

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Lips( Labia)

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Form the lateral walls

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Cheeks

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8
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Forms the anterior roof

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Hard palate

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9
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Forms the posterior roof

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Soft palate

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10
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Fleshy projection of the roof soft palate

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Uvula

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11
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Spaces between lips externally and teeth and guns internally

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Vestibule

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12
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Area contained by the teeth

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Oral cavity

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13
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Attached at hyoid and styloid processes of the skill and by the lingual frenulum

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Tongue

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14
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2 type of tonsils

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• palatine tonsils
• lingual tonsil

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15
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Processes of the mouth

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•mastication(chewing) of food
•mixing masticated food with saliva
•initiation of swallowing by the tongue •allowing for the sense of taste

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16
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3 types of pharynx

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• nasopharynx
•oropharynx
•laryngopharynx

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17
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It is not part of the digestive system

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Nasopharynx

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18
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Posterior to oral cavity

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Oropharynx

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19
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Below the oropharynx and connected to the esophagus

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Laryngopharynx

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20
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Serves as the passageway for air and food

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Pharynx

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21
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2 muscle layers of the esophagus

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•Longitudinal inner layer
• circular outer layer

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22
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Food movement by contractions of the muscle layers

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Peristalsis

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23
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•runs from the pharynx to stomach through the diaphragm
• conducts food by peristalsis
• passageway dor food only

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Esophagus

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24
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Layers of alimentary Canal organs

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• mucosa
•submucosa
• muscularis externa
•serosa

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25
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•innermost layer
• moist membrane
•surface epithelium
• small amount if connective tissue(lamina propria)
•small smooth muscle layer

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Mucosa

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•jsut beneath the mucosa
•Soft conenctive tissue with blood vessels, nerve endings, and lymphatics

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•just beneath the mucosa
•Soft conenctive tissue with blood vessels, nerve endings, and lymphatics

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•smooth muscle
• inner circular layer
• outer longitudinal layer

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Muscularis externa

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•The outer most layer - visceral peritoneum
• layer of serous fulid- producing cells

30
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•located on the left side of the abdominal cavity
• food enters at the cardioesophageal sphincter

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Regions of the stomach

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•cardiac region
• fundus
• body
• pylorus

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Funnel-shaped terminal end

33
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Food empties jnto the small instestine at the _______________

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Pyloric sphincter

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Internal folds of the mucosa

35
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External regions of the stomach

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•Lesser curvature
• greater curvature

36
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Layers of peritoneum attached to the stomach

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•lesser omentum
•greater omentum

37
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Attaches the liver to the lesser curvature

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Lesser omentum

38
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Attaches the greater curvature to the posterior body wall

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Greater omentum

39
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•acts as the storage tank for food
• site of food breakdown
• chemical breakdown of protein begins
• delivers chyme (processed food) to the small intestine

40
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Specialized mucosa of the stomach
• simple columnar epithelium

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• mucous neck cells
• gastric glands
• chief cells
• parietal cells
• endocrine cells

41
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Produce a stick alkaline mucus

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Mucous neck cells

42
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Secretes gastric juice

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Gastic glands

43
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Produce protein-digesting enzymes (pepsinogens)

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Chief cells

44
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Produce hydrochloric acid

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Parietal cells

45
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Produce gastrin

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Endocrine cells

46
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It is formed by folded mucosa

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Gastric pits

47
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• the body’s major digestive organ
• site of nutrient absorption into the blood
• muscular tube extending form the pyloric sphicter to the ileocecal valve
• suspended from the posterior abdominal wall by the mesentery

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Small intestine

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Subdivisions of the small intestine

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• duodenum
• jejunum
• ileum

49
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• attached to the stomach
• curves around the head of the pancreas

50
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Attaches anteriorly to the duodenum

51
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Extends from jejunum to the large intestine

52
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Digested food in the stomach with gastric juices

53
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It is a masticated food mixed with saliva

54
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Bile enters from the _____

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Gallbladder

55
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• finger-like structure formed by the mucosa
• give the small intestine more surface area

56
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•small projecttions of the plasma membrane
• found on absorptive cells

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Microvilli

57
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Structures involving in absorption of nutrients

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• absorptive cells
• blood capillaries
• lacteals

58
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Folds of the small intestine is called

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Circular folds or plicae circulares

59
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Larger in diameter, but shorter than the small intestine and it frams the internal abdomen

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Large intestine

60
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Produce mucus to act as a lubricant

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Goblet cells

61
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Saclike first part of the large intestine

62
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• accumulation of lymphatic tissue tagt sometimes becomes inflamed
•hangs from the cecum

63
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Walls are formed into pocketlike sacs in the large intestine is called____

64
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What do you call the crossing of the large intestine? Each side roght and left

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• right colic (hepatic) flexure
• left colic ( splenic) flexure

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