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Digestive System Flashcards

1
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Structure of Digestion System

“My Parents Exerpienced Selling Some Large Rats”

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Mouth
Pharynx
Esophagus
Stomach
Small Intestine
Large instestine
Rectum

All are organs

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Allmentary Canal

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Also known as GI tract or gut

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3
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Accessory Digestive glands

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Teeth
Toung
Gallbladder
Digestion gland

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4
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Digestion gland

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Produces secretion that help break down foodstuffs

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5
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Types of Digestion gland

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Pancrease
Salivary gland
Liver

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6
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Small Intestine

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Extend from plyoric sphincter to ileocecal
Microvilli - enzymes are embedded
Duodenum - shortest segment
jejunum -main site of absorption
ileum - narrowest in diameter

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Large intestine

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  • Specialized of Vitamin K biotin, sodium ions, chloride ions and water
  • Cecum - Large intestine is a pouch
  • colon - middle portion, divided into ascending colon. transverse,
  • rectum - opens anus
  • anal canal - last portion of rectum, involuntary internal and voluntary exertnal sphincter
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8
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CCK - Cholecystokinin

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produced in the small intestine

stimulates the release of enzymes from pancreas and the bile from the liver

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Gastrin

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Produced in the stomach and stimulates acid

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Secretin

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produced in the small intestine

Stimulates the production of bicarbonate by the pancreas

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10
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Insulin

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produced in the pancreas

regulates blood sugar level

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11
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Glucagon

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Produced in the pancreas

Helps release glucose from the liver

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12
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Bile

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Produced by the liver and stopped in the gallbladdar. Yellow-green solution bile salts pigment cholestorol and electrolytes

helps break down fat in small intestine

Enhances fat-soluble Vitamin A, D, E, and K

Stored and concentrated in gallbladdar

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13
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Peritoneum

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serous membrane of abdominal cavity that consist 2 peritoneum membrane

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Visceral peritoneum

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membrane on the external surface of most digestive organs

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14
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Parietal peritoneum

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membrane line body wall

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15
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Peritoneal cavity

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Fluid filled space between two peritoneum

fluid lubricates most organs

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16
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Mesentery

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doubled layer of peritoneum

provided routes for blood vessls, lymphatic, and nerves

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Interperitonuem organs

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organs that are located within the peritoneum

18
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Retroperitoneal organs

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located outside posterior to the peritoneum

19
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Submucosa

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areolar connective tissue, has abundant amount of elastic tissue that helps organs to regain shape after strong large meal

20
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Muscularis external

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Muscle layer responsible for segmentation and peristalisis

21
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Serosa

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Outmost layer which is made up visceral peritoneum

22
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Peristalis

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Moves food from the pharynx to the esophogus to the stomach

Involuntary process

23
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Segmentation

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Occrs in instestines

24
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What happens during ingestion?

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Food is moistened by saliva

25
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Salivary amylase

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chemical breakdown of fats

26
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Lyozymes

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enzyme that work together with immuglobin

27
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Mucin

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protein that helps form a gel-like coating that lubiricates the bolus of food

28
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Stomach

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muscle organ that stretch to accomdate a high vuolume of food. Located in the left superior region of abdomen

29
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What is the primary role of stomach?

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storage and mechanical breakdown of food

30
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What is Rugae?

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series of ridges that allow stomach to expand

31
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What are the types of gastric glands of mucosa?

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Mucous
Parietal
Cheif
Endrocrine cells

32
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Endocrine - G Cell

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release hormones into blood

33
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Parietal Cell

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secrete instrinsic factor, located in small intestines. Release Hydrochloric acid

34
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What are Chiefs Cells?

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activation of pepsinogen ( also known as pepsin) Break down protein into smaller peptide chains

35
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What are mucous?

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secretes bicardonate-containing mucus to protect the stomach from the acidity and digestive enzymes

36
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Cardiac Region

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where food is emptied in the stomach

37
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Fundus

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most superior region of the stomach

38
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What is the largest and most central region of digestion?

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Body

39
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Liver

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Not part of alimentary canal. 4 lobes organ

40
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What is the function of gastrointesinal system when it comes to the Liver?

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production of bile, nutrients meyabolism, detoxifcation

41
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What is the primary funciton of liver?

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Synthesis of bile

42
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ENS - Enteric nervous System

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operate to the brain and the spinal cord and communicate though CNS, PNS, SNS

43
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What are the two main partd of ENS?

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Submucosal and Myenteric plexuses

44
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Submucosal

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embedded with connective tissue. function is to regulate secretion, absoprtion, contraction of submucosal mucle and blood flow

45
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Myenteric plexus

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located between circular and longitudinal layers of musclaris external

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