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Digestive system Flashcards

1
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A continuous tube starting from the mouth to the anus

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Alimentary Canal

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2
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Break down food through bite, cut, tear, grind

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Teeth

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3
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Muscular organ in the mouth, guide food when chewing and swallowing

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Tongue

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4
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Throat; serves as a passageway for air and food/water

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Pharynx

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5
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Voice box; breathing; swallowing; talking

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Larynx

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6
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An open/close flap to allow air to pass when not swallowing food

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Epiglottis

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7
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Windpipe; leading oxygen to the lungs

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Trachea

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8
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Tube leading from the mouth to the stomach; the hollow part of the esophagus is called LUMEN

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Esophagus

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9
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Food storage place where food is mixed with gastric juices

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Stomach

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10
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Opening and closing of the tube in the stomach area and the anus opening

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Sphincter

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11
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Maintain blood sugar level: makes pancreatic juice -helps neutralize stomach acid.

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Pancreas

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12
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A juice produced by the liver; helps break down fats

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Bile

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13
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A storage place for bile juice; absorbs vitamins

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Gallbladder

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13
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Organ that produces bile juice to help in digestion

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Liver

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14
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22 feet long (nickname-small bowel) small tube leading from the stomach

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Small intestine

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15
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First section of the small intestine. Bile and pancreatic juice dump here to help digest food

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Duodenum

15
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A rhythmic contraction of the tubed from esophagus to the anus

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Peristalsis

15
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Middle section of the small intestine. Absorption of small molecules

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Jejunum

15
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Finger-like protrusion in the small intestine that helps absorb nutrients from the food

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Vili

15
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Last section of the small intestine. Absorption of nutrients.

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Ileum

16
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Bacteria storage pouch; located where small and large intestine meet

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Appendix

16
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First colon pouch to receive undigested food

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Caecum

17
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5 feet long. Another name for Large intestine

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Colon

18
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Absorbing remaining water; squeezing leftover water out of feces

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Ascending colon

18
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Feces delivering highway; going toward the rectum

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Descending colon

19
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Indigestible waste

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Feces

19
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Feces hang to dry; packaging solid waste

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Traverse colon

20
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The last section of the large intestine; feces storage tank

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Rectum

21
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The last opening of the alimentary canal; the exit door

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Anus

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