Chapter 2 book notes Flashcards
gastrointestinal (GI) tract:
-flexible muscular tube extending from the mouth to the anus.
-digestive tract
What organs make up the GI tract?
-mouth(teeth & tongue)
-pharynx
-epiglottis
-esophagus
-stomach
-small intestine
-large intestine (colon)
-rectum
-anus
Mouth (teeth & tongue) function:
-chews and mixes food with saliva
Pharynx function:
-directs food from mouth to esophagus
epiglottis function:
-protects airway during swallowing
esophagus function:
-passes food from the mouth to the stomach
stomach function:
-churns, mixes, and grinds food to liquid mass
-adds acid, enzymes, and fluid
small intestine function:
-duodenum, jejunum, and ileum
-secretes enzymes that digest all energy- yielding nutrients to smaller nutrient particles
-cells of wall absorb nutrients into blood and lymph.
large intestine (colon) function:
-absorbs water and minerals
-passes waste (fiber, bacteria, and unabsorbed nutrients) along with water to the rectum
rectum function:
-stores waste prior to elimination
anus function:
-holds rectum closes
-opens to allow elimination
Accessory organs that aid digestion:
-salivary glands
-liver
-gallbladder
-pancreas
salivary glands function:
-secrete saliva
liver function:
-manufactures bile salts to help digest fats
gallbladder function:
-stores bile until needed
pancreas function:
-manufactures enzymes to digest all energy-yielding nutrients and releases bicarbonate to neutralize acidic chyme that enters small intestine.
what are the principle organs of the GI tract?
-stomach & intestines
Where does the physical process of digestion start?
-mouth
Saliva helps…
-helps dissolve food so that we can taste it.
-only particles in solution can react with taste buds.
When food is swallowed it passes through the?
-pharynx
-short tube shared by both digestive system and respiratory system
Bolus
-mouthful of chewed up and swallowed food
each bolus slides across your..
-epiglottis
-during each swallow the epiglottis closes off trachea, air passageway to lungs, so that we don’t choke
Sphincter (“cardiac sphincter”)
-muscle at the end of esophagus
-during a swallow, the upper esophageal sphincter opens, bolus slides down the esophagus so that it travels to the stomach.
The lower esophageal sphincter closes behind the bolus so that..
-it cannot slip back up
Bolus in stomach:
-stomach adds gastric juices and transforms it into chyme (semiliquid mass)
Stomach then transports chyme to:
-releases chyme into another sphincter (pyloric shincter) which opens into the small intestine and closes after chyme passes through.
Chyme in small intestine:
-in beginning of small intestine, chyme passes by opening from common bile duct, which secretes digestive fluids into small intestine from two organs outside GI tract.
2 organs outside GI tract that secrete digestive fluids into small intestine:
-gallbladder & pancreas
3 segments of small intestine
-duodenum, jejunum, ileum
-total of 10 feet of tubing coiled within abdomen
Where is digestion completed?
-small intestine
Sphincter between small intestine and large intestine:
-ileocecal valve
Where is the large intestine (colon) located?
-lower right hand side of abdomen
Upon entering the colon(large intestine) the contents pass another opening:
-the one leading to appendix (blind sac size of finger)
-contents bypass this opening and head to rectum
Food travels through digestive tract in this order:
-mouth
-esophagus
-lower esophageal sphincter
-stomach
-pyloric sphincter
-duodenum
-jejunum
-ileum
-ileocecal valve
-large intestine (colon)
-rectum
-anus
Gastrointestinal motility:
-spontaneous motion in the digestive tract accomplished by involuntary muscular contractions
two types of movements of gastrointestinal motility:
1)peristalsis
2)segmentation
The entire GI tract is ringed with…
-circular muscles are inside
-longitudinal muscles are outside.
Peristalsis
-begins when bolus enters esophagus
-successive waves of involuntary muscular contractions passing along the walls of the GI tract that push the contents along
When tube is constricted:
-circular rings tighten and long muscles relax
when tube bulges:
-circular rings relax and long muscles tighten
What may interfere with normal GI tract contractions?
-stress
-medicines
-medical conditions
Segmentation:
-periodic squeezing of the intestine by its circular muscles that both mixes and slowly pushes contents along
-promotes close contact with mixing digestive juices and absorbing cells intestinal walls
The muscles of the GI tract also aide in ..
-liquefying process
Liquefying process
-GI tract help liquify bolus to chyme so that the digestive juices will have access to all their nutrients.
-initiated in mouth and finished in stomach
Which organ has the thickets walls and the strongest muscles of all the GI tract organs?
-the stomach
Third layer of muscles in stomach (in addition to the circular and longitudinal)
-diagonal muscles that alternately contract and relax.
All 3 muscles of stomach work together to :
-force chyme downward
The pyloric sphincter opens briefly…
-about 3 times a minute, to allow small portions through.
To digest food, how many organs secrete digestive juices?
-5
-salivary glands, stomach, small intestine, liver (via gallbladder), and pancreas
Digestion of carbs begins in:
-in mouth, where the salivary glands secrete saliva that breaks the bonds in the chains of starch.
Salivary glands
-exocrine glands that secrete saliva into the mouth