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1
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What does the salivary glands secrete?

A

Saliva

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What is the function of the salivary glands?

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Moisten and bind food particles, begins carbo digestion, & acts as a solvent to dissolve food chemicals (necessary to taste), & clean mouth and teeth

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3
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What are the 2 types of cells in salivary glands?

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Mucous and serous

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4
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Which cell type secretes amylase?

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Serous

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5
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What does amylase do?

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Digestive enzyme that splits starch and glycogen into disaccharides

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6
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Which cell type secretes mucus?

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Mucous

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What does mucus do?

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Thick, stringy liquid that binds food and acts as lubricant during swallowing

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8
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What are the 3 major glands in salivary glands?

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Parotid, submandibular, sublingual glands

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9
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Which major gland is also known as submaxilary?

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Submandibular

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10
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Which major gland is the smallest and found on floor of mouth under tongue and secretes a

thick & stringy fluid?

A

Sublingual glands

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Which major gland is the largest and found in front of and below ear and secretes watery fluid

containing amylase?

A

Parotid

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12
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Which major gland is located on inside surface of jaw in floor of mouth and secretes a more

viscous fluid than the parotid glands?

A

Submandibular (submaxilary)

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13
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The pharynx connects what 2 cavities with what 2 things?

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Connects nasal and oral cavity with larynx and esophagus

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14
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What are the 3 parts of the pharynx?

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Nasopharynx, oropharynx, and laryngopharynx

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Which part of the pharynx is located behind the nasal cavity?

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Nasopharynx

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16
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Which part of the pharynx is located in the larynx?

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Laryngopharynx

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17
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Which part of the pharynx is located in the oral cavity?

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Oropharynx

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18
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How long is the esophagus?

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25 cm

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19
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What is scattered throughout the esophagus to keep inner lining moist?

A

 Mucous glands

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20
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What type of fibers are located in the esophagus?

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Circular muscle

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21
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Where are these fibers found?

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 Within walls and thicken above esophagus/stomach juncture

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22
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Why do they contract?

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To prevent regurgitation

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23
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When to they relax and why?

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When peristaltic waves reach stomach to allow food to enter

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24
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What is the stomach shaped as?

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 J

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25
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What is the capacity of the stomach?

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1 liter

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26
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The stomach is lined with thick folds called what?

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Rugae

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27
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What is the function of the stomach?

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Receive food, mix it with gastric juice, initiate digestion of proteins, absorb some

nutrients, and move food into small intestine

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28
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What are the 4 regions of the stomach?

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Cardiac, fundic, body, pyloric

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29
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Which is a small area of the stomach near esophageal opening?

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Cardiac

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30
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Which is the main part of the stomach?

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Body

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31
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  1. Which are balloons above cardiac region and is temporary storage area of the stomach?
A

Fundic

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32
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Which part of the stomach narrows and becomes pyloric canal?

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Pyloric

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33
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What is the thickening of muscular wall at end of canal?

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Pyloric sphincter

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34
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What does the pyloric sphincter prevent?

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Regurgitation from small intestine

35
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What are the 3 gastric secretions and what do they secrete?

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 Mucous-mucus; chief-pepsinogen (inactive); parietal-HCl and intrinsic factor

36
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What changes pepsinogen into pepsin?

37
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What helps absorb vitamin B-12 from small intestine?

A

Intrinsic factor

38
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What is viscous and alkaline to coat and protect inner stomach wall from pepsin digesting the

proteins of its wall?

39
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What is a protein-splitting enzyme?

40
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What are 5 things the stomach can absorb?

A

Water, glucose, certain salts, alcohol, various lipid-soluble drugs

41
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What is a semi-fluid paste of food and gastric juices and is pushed towards pyloric region?

42
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What rate depends on at which food empties to small intestine?

A

Fluidity of chyme and type of food

43
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What is the order of substances that the stomach digests?

A

Carbos, proteins, fats

44
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How long does it take to digest?

45
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The pancreas serves as what 2 glands?

A

Endocrine and exocrine

46
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Which gland releases hormones?

47
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  1. Which gland secretes digestive juice?
48
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The pancreas is an elongated, flattened organ that is posterior to what?

49
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What is the pancreas attached to and by what?

A

Duodenum of small intestine by a duct

50
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What type of cells are in the pancreas?

51
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What do the acinar cells produce?

A

Pancreatic juice

52
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What is the pancreatic juice capable of digesting?

A

Carbos, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

53
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What splits starch and glycogen into disaccharides?

A

Pancreatic amylase

54
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What breaks triglycerides into 3 fatty acids and 1 glycerol?

A

Pancreatic lipase

55
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What splits bonds of amino acids into proteins?

A

Proteinases

56
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What are 3 kinds of proteinases?

A

 Trypsin, chymotrypsin, and carboxypeptidase

57
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The Trypsin, chymotrypsin, and carboxypeptidase are all secreted in their inactive form until they reach small intestine where other

enzymes do what?

A

Activate them

58
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What breaks nucleic acid molecules into nucleotides?

59
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What are two types of the nucleases?

A

 DNA & RNA

60
Q

Pancreatic secretions are regulated by what?

A

Parasympathetic nerve impulses and the hormones secretin and cholecystokinin

61
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Parasympathetic nerve impulses and the hormones secretin and cholecystokinin

A

 Parasympathetic nerve impulses and the hormones gastrin and cholecystokinin

62
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Salivary secretions are regulated by what?

A

Parasympathetic nerve impulses

63
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What is a mass of chewed food mixed with saliva rolled into a ball?

64
Q

What color is the liver and why?

A

Reddish/brown because well supplied with blood vessels

65
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What is the largest gland in the body?

66
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What are the 5 functions of the liver?

A

Metabolizes carbos, lipids, and proteins

 Stores glycogen, vitamins A, D, & B12, and iron

 Filters damaged RBCs and foreign substances from blood

 Detoxificator – alters composition of toxic substances

 Secretes bile

67
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What color is the bile?

A

Yellowish green liquid

68
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What is bile composed of?

A

Water, bile salts, bile pigments, cholesterol, and electroclytes

69
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The liver is composed of how many lobes?

70
Q

Which liver lobe is larger?

71
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Each liver lobe is divided into what?

A

Tiny hepatic lobules

72
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What does the tiny hepatic lobules contain?

A

Hepatic cells

73
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What shape is the gallbladder?

74
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How is it attached to surface of liver?

A

Cystic duct

75
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What are the functions of the gall bladder?

A

Stores bile between meals

 Concentrates bile

 Releases bile into small intestine

76
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How is the common bile duct formed?

A

By union of hepatic and cystic ducts

77
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What does the hepatic and cystic ducts lead to?

78
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What is the duodenum guarded by?

A

Sphincter muscle (sphincter of Oddi)

79
Q

Presence of fat in small intestine triggers release of hormone cholecystokinin which stimulates

what?

A

Contraction of gall bladder

80
Q

Bile salts are not a digestive enzyme, but aids in what?

A

The action of digestive enzymes

81
Q

What is it when fat globules break into smaller droplets to mix with water, allowing lipases to

digest fat molecule better?

82
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What do bile salts enhance absorption of?

A

Fatty acids, certain fat-soluble vitamins (A,D,E,K), and cholesterol

83
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Lack of bile salts can cause what?

A

Vitamin deficiencies and lipids to be absorb poorly

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