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Digestive System Flashcards

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Ingestion?

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Combination of mastication by deglutition moving a bolus of food to stomach

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Prehension

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The process of acquiring food through seizing, grasping or other methods

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Digestion

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Physiological actions of the stomach and enzymatic breakdown of food to an absorbable form

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Absorption

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Passage of materials from the lumen of the intestine into the blood stream

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Metabolism

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Chemical reactions where food components are altered to produce or store energy

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Excretion

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Process of eliminating waste products of digestion from tissues and organs from the body

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Pylorus?

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Regulates movement of chyme from stomach to duodenum

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Cardia

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Area with sphincter that comes above it when food not being swallowed

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Fundus

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Contains key gastric glands with parietal chief and mucous cells

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Pyloric Antrum

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Regulates production of hydrochloric acid; secretes gastrin into blood when food present

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Gastric Mucosa?

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Columnar Epithelium, a thin layer of loose areolar connective tissue and muscle. Thin layer that separates it from the submucosa.

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Submucosa

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Comprised of dense, irregular, connective tissue separating it from mucosa. Contains blood and lymphatic vessels and nerves which supply the mucosa.

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Muscular Externa

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Region of muscle responsible for peristaltic movements of the stomach. Comprised of three layers.

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Order of muscle layers in stomach?

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  • Longitudinal
  • Circular
  • Oblique
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Order of muscle layers in stomach?

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  • Longitudinal
  • Circular
  • Oblique
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Longitudinal

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Generates peristaltic movement contractions moving food through the stomach

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Oblique

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Churns and breaks down the bolus of food

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Circular

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Mixes bolus of food via forceful, grinding contractions, moving it to the duodenum

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Goblet Cells

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Produce mucus from stomach wall to protect against auto digestion

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Parietal Cells

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Produces HCl from stomach wall, lowering pH so pepsin can break down protein

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Chief Cells

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Produces pepsinogen which when combined with Hal converts to pepsin to break down protein

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HCl?

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Hydrochloric Acid

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Which hormone is responsible for stimulating the parietal cells to produce Hydrochloric Acid?

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Gastrin

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The mix of partly digested food and secretions from the stomach is referred to as?

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Chyme

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Chyme?

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Product in the stomach following food material breakdown, food enters the stomach at gastric pits within gastric lining secrete various gastric juices.

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Main site for absorption of products following digestion?

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Small Intestine

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Duodenum

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Presence of chyme here stimulates production of pancreatic juices and bile

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Jejunum

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Contains large villi, caudal section absorption of majority of nutrients

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Ileum

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Absorption of electrolytes, Vit B12 and bile salts

30
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What is absorbed by the colon?

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Vitamins, Electrolytes and Water

31
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Which cell secretes HCl in the stomach lining?

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Parietal Cells

32
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The gall bladder stores bile and delivers it to the large intestine via the common bile duct.
Select one:
True
False

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False

33
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Large Intestine is made up of?

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Colon, Caecum, Rectum and Anus

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What are the villi of the small intestine lined with?

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Simple columnar

35
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Deglutition?

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Swallowing

36
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BMR?

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energy required to sustain vital functions e.g. heart beat, breathing, nervous activity

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Peristalsis?

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involuntary movement of the intestines moving the contents along the lumen

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Absorption

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transfer of substances; in particular digested food from the lumen of the alimentary tract to blood or lymph

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Digestion?

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the process of breaking down food for absorption in the gut

40
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A role of HCl in the stomach is to?

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Kills bacteria

41
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Which of the following enzymes breaks down proteins into peptides and amino acids?
Select one:
a. Proteases.
b. Peptidases
c. Bile salts.
d. Lipases.
A

Protease

42
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How does digested food finally reach the bloodstream?

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It is absorbed into the blood through blood vessels

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Tongue?

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Manipulation of food during mastication and swallowing. Also taste, grooming and thermoregulation

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Colon

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Absorbs water, vitamins and electrolytes to aid in compaction and passage of faeces

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Small Intestine

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Receive pancreatic enzymes and bile, secrete own juices and enzymes and digest and absorb nutrients

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Caecum

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No function in carnivores. Site for bacterial breakdown of plant matter for some herbivores

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Rectum?

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Temporary storage site for faecal waste

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Ascending Colon

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Begin process of extraction of waste and other nutrients from waste material

49
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Caecum?

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Site of microbial action on digestive food stuffs

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Transverse Colon?

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Absorbs water and salt

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Descending Colon?

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Storage of waste which gradually solidifies as it moves through this colon

52
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If faeces is not eliminated from the body, it returns to the colon where more what is absorbed to cause constipation which could lead to faecal impaction?

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Water

53
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Black Faeces indicates?

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Bleeding in upper GI tract

54
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Bright red faeces?

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Undigested blood in lower GI tract

55
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Orange Faeces?

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Liver issue

56
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Yellow Faeces?

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food intolerance

57
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Pink/Purple Faeces?

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HGE

58
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Where does starch first undergo chemical digestion?

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In the mouth

59
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Saliva contains an enzyme to partially digest what?

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Starch

60
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What is the function of sodium bicarbonate ( NaHCO3 ) in pancreatic juice?

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Neutralises acid chyme

61
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What would inhibit trypsin’s ability to form an enzyme-substrate complex?

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pH of 3

62
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Which of these is not a feature of the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract?

A

Myenteric Plexus

63
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Vitamins and amino acids are produced in the large intestine by what?

A

Bacteria

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