Digestive System Flashcards

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What is the function of the digestive System?

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The mouth, esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas form a system that mechanically and chemically breaks down food, absorbs the molecules from it, and eliminates solide waste.

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What are Primary GI Tract Organs?

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Mouth 
Oro- and laryngo- pharynx 
Esophagus 
Stomach 
Small Intestine 
Large
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3
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What are Accessory Digestive Organs?

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Teeth 
Tongue
Salivary Glands 
Liver 
Gallbladder 
Pancreas
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4
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Draw out the laers of GI tract and peritoneum.

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Superficial=close to lumen, deep=farther away from lumen;

Muscosa, submucosa, muscularis, and either serosa, or adventitia (adventitia in esphagus) Stomach has one more muscular layer-oblique

Folds of peritoneum secure organs: Mesentery, mesocolon, lesser and greater omentum (falciform ligament-liver)

Kidneys & pancreas-retroperitoneal

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5
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What are the Peritoneal Cavity?

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Lesser Omentum
Mesocolon
Mesentery
Greater Omentum

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6
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What are the sphincters?

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Upper Esophageal
Lower Esophageal 
Pyloric 
Ileocecal 
Anal Sphincters
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7
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What is the function of the esphagus?

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Muscular tube; Upper and lower esophageal sphinters

Layers: longtiudinal smoother muslce –shortening
Cirucular smooth muscle–squeezing
Adventitia-outermost layers

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What is the funcation of the stomach?

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Cardia, fundus, body, pyloris, Rugae

Greater and lesser curvatures
Oblique Layer

Gastric Glands and pits: Parietal cells-HCl acid
Chief Cells-pepsoinogen
G cells-gastrin hormone

Has no goblet cells

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9
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What are the parts of the small intestine?

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DJ ileum-"Churn Down for Whut" 
Dueodenum
Jejunum
ileum 
lleocecal sphincter 
Segmentation 
Circular fold, villi, microvilli
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10
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Label the parts of the large intestine.

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Absorption of water, bacteria complete digestion, prepares and elminates feces

lleocecal sphincter
Appendix
Ascending, transverse, and descending colon
Teniae colon
Rectum
Anus
Anal Aphincters (External-volunatry and internal-involuntary)

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11
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What is the liver main function?

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Making bile which metabolizes lipids

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12
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What is the gallbladder main function?

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Concentrates and stores bile

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What is the pancreas main function?

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Head, body, tail, secretes digestive enzymes and bicarb into the duodenum

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14
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___ of food

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Ingestion

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15
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____ of digestive juices

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secretion

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16
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mixing and ___ of food

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propulsion

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17
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___ of food into small, absorable molecules

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digestion

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18
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____ of digestive products across the GI tract wall and into the body

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Absorption

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19
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Is digestion mechanical or chemical digestion?

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Both

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20
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What is the largest serous membrane in the body?

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The peritoneum

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21
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What are the inner and outer surfaces of the peritoneum called?

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Parietal Peritoneum (inner surface) & Visceral Peritoneum (outer surface)

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22
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What fluid is found in between the two peritoneal layers in the peritoneal cavity?

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Peritoneal (serous) fluid

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23
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What holds the small intestine to the posterior abdominal wall?

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Mesentery

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24
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What holds the large intestine to the posterior abdominal wall?

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Mesocolon

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25
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The liver is bound to the anterior abdominal wall by the ____.

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Falciform ligament

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26
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What attaches to the transverse colon and small intestine, and it resembles as a large, fatty-looking apron?

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Greater Omentum

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27
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What connects to the medial curve of the stomach with the liver?

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Lesser Omentum

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28
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The ___ and ____ form the roof of the mouth, the tongue forms the floor, and the cheeks form the lateral walls.

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Hard and Soft Palates

29
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The anterior border is the lips, and the posterior border is the _____, which is the opening to the oropharynx.

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Fauces

30
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The mouth is also called the oral or ____ cavity.

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Buccal

31
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The _____ is the space between the lips and teeth.

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Vestibule

32
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The lips are attached to the ___ by the ____.

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Gingivia and labial frenulum

33
Q

What two arches are formed that the uvula hangs down between them?

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Palatglossal arch (anterior) and Palatopharyngeal (posterior)

34
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When teeth break down food into smaller pieces by a mechanical process called what?

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Mastication

35
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What is the function of the tongue?

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Mixes food with saliva, initiate chemical digestion.

36
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Where does the oropharynx begin?

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At the uvula and extends to the hyoid bone

37
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What is the oropharynx function?

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Has both respiratory and digestive functions because air, food, and liquid pass throught it

38
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What is the largopharynx function?

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Begins at the hyoid bone and divides into digestive and repiratory pathways just inferior to the epiglottis

39
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What controls the passage of food from the largopharynx into the esphagus?

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Upper Esophageal Sphincter

40
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As food continues down the esphagus and from the upper esphageal sphincter, what’s next?

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Lower Esphageal Sphincter (cardiac sphincter)

41
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What digestive function occurs in the esphagus and how is it accomplished?

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Through propulsion, which moves food into the stomach and is accomplised by peristalsis, a series of contractions and relaxations of te muscularis layer.

42
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Where does the esphagus lead to?

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Superior part of the stomach

43
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What is the first part of the stomach?

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Cardia, inferior to the lower esophageal sphincter

44
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What is the second part of the stomach?

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Fundus, is the elevated area to the left of the cardia that serves as the temporary holding area for food

45
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What is the third part of the stomach?

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The body is the largest, curved part of the stomach

46
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What comes after the body of the stomach?

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The pyloric antrum

47
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The pyloric antrum breaks down into two sectors what are they?

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Plyoric canal and pyloric sphincter

48
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Is a smooth muscle that allows food to enter the first part of the small intestine the duodenum is called what?

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Pyloric sphincter

49
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The stomach has large, conspicuous ridges in the mucosa called ____ that allow the stomach to be stretched when food and drink are present.

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Rugae

50
Q

The lateral curve of the stomach is the _____ and the smaller medial curve is called ____.

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Greater and lesser curvature

51
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What digestive functions does the stomach have?

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Secretion of gastric jucies–begin the chemcial digestion of protein and lipids; stop chemical digestion of carbohydrates
Mixing and Propulsion–propel food into the small intestine
Mechanical and chemical digestion

52
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What are the three sections of the small intestine?

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Duodenum, Jejunum, ileum

53
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What has the shortest section, the ____, resmebles the “C” and receives food through the pyloric sphincter.

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Duodenum

54
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The next section _____ is about 3 feet long and has a thicker layer of smooth muscle. It is named because on death it is found to be empty.

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Jejunum

55
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The ____ the last section of the small intestine, is about 6 feet long and ends at the ileoceceal sphincter (valve) where it joins the large intestine.

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ileum

56
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What are the digestive system functions of the small intestine?

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Secretion: from the pancreas, liver, and intestinal glands are deposited into the lumen of the small intestine
Mixing and Propulsion
Mechanical and chemical digestion
Absorption: occurs in small intestine

57
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What is large intestine composed of?

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Cecum, colon, rectum, and anal canal

58
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A blind pouch called the ____, which is about 2 to 3 inches long, extends inferiorly from the large intestine at the ileocecal sphincter in the lower right quadrant.

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Cecum

59
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The slender ___, which is lymphatic tissue, branches off the cecym and is also about 2 to 3 inches long.

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Appendix

60
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From the ileocecal junction, the ____ extends superiorly to the liver on the right side of the abdomen and makes a 90 turn to the left at the right colic (hepatic) flexure.

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Ascending colon

61
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The colon continues as the _____ until it reaches the spleen, where it makes another 90 turn at the left colic (splenic) flexure.

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Transverse colon

62
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The ____ then continues inferiorly on the left side to an S-shaped curve called the sigmoid colon at the level of iliac crest.

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Descending colon

63
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____ are three longitudinal bands of smooth muscle that run along the length of the large intestine.

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Teniae coli

64
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Following the sigmoid colon, at about the third sacral vertebre level, is the ____.

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Rectum

65
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The last segment of the colon is the _____, whihc has longitudinal anal columns or folds rich with blood vessels.

A

Anal Canal

66
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The anal canal opens to the exterior at the an opening called the ___.

A

Anus

67
Q

Two muscle sphincters in the anus: the ____ and ___ one is involuntary and voluntary.

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Internal Sphincter

External Sphincter

68
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What is the digestive function of the large intestine?

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Absorbs large amount of water

Bacteria completes digestion and produce vitamins

Secretes mucus and eliminates fecal material from the body through the anus