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