Digestive System Flashcards
Teeth
Break down food so it moves faster
Types of teeth
Front acts as knife, movers grind down food
Tungue
Roles food to back of throat to help swallowing
Esophagus
Muscles squeezing that push food to stomach
Liver
Makes bile and detoxifies substance
- Turn glucose into glycogen
- Stores carbohydrates as glycogen
- Acts as amino acids to form urea
- Secretes bile
Bile duct
Path ways for bile to get to exit of stomach
Bile
Helps register food .
neatrilze stomach acid
Gall bladder
Stores bile so we always have enough
Small intentine
Also known a villi
Narrow in diameter
Adored nutrients into blood
Appendix
Unknown purpose
Could be a saferpom for bacteria
Is removed if about to burst
Salivary glands
Softens food
Releases amylase
Converts starch into sugar
Cardiac sphineter
Keeps stomach acid in stomach. Not in throat
Stomach
Moves food around in curulare motion
Reales amylase and hydrochloric acid
Pancreas
Produce amzimes for digestion of food
Large intestine
Absorbs water to reuse
Rectum
Storage area for waste
Anus
Exit, keep waste inside until ready for realese
How does the stomach protect its self
A mucus membrane, mucus lning
How does the stomach lining get damage
Bacteria, stress., and diet.
Salt, alcohol, some drugs
What is gall stone
Bile salts that solidified
Why is waste brown
Bile that is not absorbed
What function do the beneficial bacteria in our large intestine perform
Collect leftover nutrients and breakdown more food
What happens to the sugar that enters our bloodstream
Goes to muscles first, but then stored for later in liver
To what substance is the excess sugar converted
Glicogine
What function does the liver have that is unreplaceable
The ability to fight toxins
Pylori sphineter
Constricted band of muscle that keeps food in stomach
Regulates Foo in stomach
5 functions of tongue
Used for taste
Helps you chew by keeping food at the back of your throat
Keeps inner surface of teeth clean
Essential for speach
Parts of small intestine
Duodenal
Jejunum
Ileum
3 enzymes In pancreas
Trypsin - breakdown proteins
Amylase - changes starch into Maltese
Lipase- splits fat into fatty acids and glycerin
Villi
Fingerling projections in the irregular lining in the small intestine. Is used to make more surface area to absorb nutrients
Peristalsis
The involuntary contraction of the esophagus, which moves the food down
Pancreas
Puts enzymes into small intestines to break down food
Proteins, fats, carbohydrates
Gull stones are caused by
To much salt
Gull stones are caused by
To much salt
