Chapter 8 Test your knowledge concepts Flashcards
The squeezing of food through a hollow muscular structure is called
Peristalsis
What does Bile do?
Emulsifies fat
What is not a function of the liver in adults
Makes RBC’s
The large intestine
absorbes water
Removes nondigestible remains
Large intestine
Serves as a passageway
Esophagus
A hormone that stimulates the stomach to secrete gastric juice.
Gastrin
Stores food
Stomach
Absorbs nutrients
Small intestine
Receives food
Mouth
The amino acids that must be consumed in the diet are called essential. Nonessential amino acids
Can be produced by the body
Breaks apart fat molecules into fatty acids and glycerol
Lipase
Mucous protects the stomach from
HCl and pepsin
What from the duodenal wall stimulates the pancreas to secrete digestive juice and the gallbladder to release bile?
Secretin and CCK
What from the lower stomach feeds back to stimulate the upper part of the stomach to produce digestive juice?
Gastrin
The first part of the small intestine
Duodenum
Chyme enters through a
sphincter.
produced by cells of the duodenum
Secretin
Breaks long carbohydrates into disaccharides which then break apart into monosaccharides that can be absorbed by the cells lining your small intestine
Pancreatic amylase
Material that can’t be further digested or used passes onto the ?
Large intestine
Nutrients gained from digested food diffuse through the walls of
Small intestine, through the capillaries walls, across the interstitial fluid, and into your cells
If the level of glucose it too high its called
Hyperglycemia
