Digestive System Flashcards
What organs in digestive system do (5)
- Ingest food
- Transport ingested food
- Digest material into smaller usable components
- absorb necessary nutrients into bloodstream
- expel waste products from body
2 Categories of Organs in digestive system
- Digestive Organs: make up gastrointestinal tract (aka digestive tract or alimentary canal)
- Accessory digestive organs: organs that aide in digestion
Digestive system functions (6)
- Ingestion
- Digestion
- Propulsion
- secretion
- Absorption
- Elimination of wastes
GI Tract Organs (6)
- Oral cavity
- Pharynx
- oesophagus
- stomach
- small intestine
- large intestine
Cheeks, Lips & Palate
- palate (2 types)
- uvula
- Palate = roof of oral cavity
- anterior 2/3 = hard palate (comprised of bone)
- posterior 1/3 = soft palate (musclar)
- uvula extends from it -> elevates during swallowing and closes off posterior entrance to nasopharynx
Cheeks, lips & palate
- Cheeks and lips
- labial fenulum
- Cheeks = lateral wall (mainly comprised of buccinator muscles)
- end anteriorly as lips - Gingivae (gums) cover alveolar processes of teeth
- internal surface of upper and lower lips attached to gingivae by thin, midline mucosa fold called labial frenulum.
What comprises the oral cavity
- Cheeks, lips & palate
- Tongue
- salivary glands
- teeth
Cheeks, Lips and Palate
- fauces
- 2 muscles that bind it laterally
- palatine tonsils -> where found
- Fauces represent opening from oral cavity to oropharynx
- are bounded laterally by paired muscular folds (palatoglossal arch & palatopharyngeal arch)
- Palatine tonsils housed between two arches
Tongue
- What it does
- bolus
- lingual frenulum (what it is & where it attaches)
- Manipulates & mixes ingested materials during chewing & helps compress partially digested materials into bolus
- Bolus: globular mass of ingested materials that can be more easily swallowed
- inner surface of tongue attaches to floor of oral cavity by thin, midline mucous membrane called lingual frenulum
Gustation
- what is it
- Gustatory cells (what are they called?)
- where located
- Sense of taste
- Gustatory cells = taste receptors housed in specialized organs called TASTE BUDS
- located on dorsal surface of tongue in elevated epithelial & CT called papillae
Tongue Papillae (4 types)
- Filiform papillae
- Fungiform papillae
- Vallate papillae (form a V shape)
- Foliate papillae
Salivary Glands
- role
- 5 functions
-produce & secrete saliva into oral cavity
FUNCTIONS;
-moistens ingested materials to become slick bolus
-Moistens, cleanses & lubricates struct. of oral cavity
-chem digestion of ingested materials
-antibacterial action
-dissolves materials so that taste receptors on tongue can be stimulated
3 pairs of salivary glands -> where all are located
- located external to oral cavity
1. Parotid glands
2. Submandibular glands
3. Sublingual glands
Salivary Glands; Parotid salivary glands
- where found
- how much saliva they produce
- longest of 3 salivary glands
- located anterior & inferior to ear
- secrete 25-30% total saliva
- run parallel to zygomatic arch & pierces buccinator muscle
- also secrete amylase
Salivary glands; Submandibular glands
- where found
- how much saliva they produce
- reside inferior to body of mandible
- Produce majority of saliva (60-70%)
- submandibular duct transports saliva from each gland through papilla in floor of mouth
- on lateral sides of lingual frenulum
Salivary glands; Sublingual salivary glands
- where found
- how much saliva they produce
- Inferior to tongue
- Each gland extends multiple tiny sublingual ducts that open onto inferior surface of oral cavity (posterior to submandibular duct papillae
- Only contribute 3-5% total saliva
Salivary gland secretion (2 types)
-2 types of secretory cells found in glands;
- Mucous cells: secrete mucin, which forms mucus upon hydration (provides lubrication in oral cavity)
- Serous cells: secrete watery fluid containing ions, lysozyme and salivary amylase (involved in chemical digestion)
Salivary glands and types of secretion
- Parotoid = serous secretion
- Submandibular = mucous and serous secretions
- Sublingual = mucous and serous secretions
Teeth
- Parts of tooth
- dentin
- enamel
- centre of tooth
- root canal
- aka dentition
- Tooth has exposed crown, constricted neck & 1 or more roots that fit into dental alveoli
- dentin forms primary mass of tooth (is harder than bone)
- each root covered w/ cementum
- external surface of dentin = layer of enamel
- centre = pulp cavity that contains connective tissue called pulp
- root canal opens into CT through opening called apical foramen (where blood vessels & nerves pass through this opening)
Teeth - the 2 sets that develop and erupt in normal lifetime
-number of teeth
- Deciduous teeth: erupt between 6-30 months, 20 in number (often called milk teeth)
- Permanent teeth: replace deciduous teeth, 32 in number
Permanent teeth
-4 types and what they’re used for
- Incisors: most anteriorly placed, shaped like chisels, single root (slicing/cutting)
- Canines: posterolateral to incisors, pointed tips (puncturing/tearing)
- Premolars: posterolateral to canines, have flat crowns w/ prominent ridges called cusps (crushing/grinding)
- Molars: thickest and most posterior teeth (crushing/grinding)
Pharynx
- shared by
- 3 skeletal muscles -> what they do
- blood supply
- shared by respiratory & digestive systems
- 3 skeletal muscle pairs of paryngeal constrictors (superior, middle & inferior)
- participate in swallowing
- Branches of external carotid arteries supply pharynx
- internal jugular veins drain the pharynx
Oesophagus
- what it does
- length
- oesophageal hiatus
- Tubular passageway that conducts ingested materials from pharynx to stomach
- Passes through opening in diaphragm (oesophageal hiatus) as it connects to stomach
- approx 25 cm long (anterior to vertebral bodies)
- 1.5cm in abdomen before changing into stomach
Oesophagus
- 3 Layers
- 2 sphincters & what they control
- Layers; Mucosa (inner), Mucularis mucosa (voluntary & involuntary mucles), advantitia (Connects oesophagus to other body parts)
- 2 sphincters;
1. Superior Oesophageal sphincter: at junction of pharynx & oesophagus -> closes during inhalation preventing air from entering GI tract
2. Inferior oesophageal sphincter: at juction of eosphagus and stomach - prevents materials from regurgitating from stomach into oesophagus
Stomach
- where found in abdomen
- what it does
- chyme
- 3 layers of muscle
- Upper left quadrant of abdomen
- Continues mechanical & chem digestion of bolus
- bolus eventually processed into paste-like soup called Chyme (through enzymes & acids)
- 3 layers of muscle to aid in mechanical processing of ingested materials
- longitudinal, circular & oblique layers
Stomach (4 regions)
- 4 regions;
1. Cardia
2. Fundus
3. Body
4. Pylorus
Stomach
- inferior & superior border
- rugae -> what they are & what they do
- inferior border = greater curvature
- superior border = inferior curvature
- Internal surface is thrown into folds called gastric folds (rugae)
- increases surface area (allows stomach to expand & disend)