Digestive System Flashcards
What is the function of the digestive System?
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.
What are Primary GI Tract Organs?
Mouth Oro- and laryngo- pharynx Esophagus Stomach Small Intestine Large
What are Accessory Digestive Organs?
Teeth Tongue Salivary Glands Liver Gallbladder Pancreas
Draw out the laers of GI tract and peritoneum.
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
What are the Peritoneal Cavity?
Lesser Omentum
Mesocolon
Mesentery
Greater Omentum
What are the sphincters?
Upper Esophageal Lower Esophageal Pyloric Ileocecal Anal Sphincters
What is the function of the esphagus?
Muscular tube; Upper and lower esophageal sphinters
Layers: longtiudinal smoother muslce –shortening
Cirucular smooth muscle–squeezing
Adventitia-outermost layers
What is the funcation of the stomach?
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
What are the parts of the small intestine?
DJ ileum-"Churn Down for Whut" Dueodenum Jejunum ileum lleocecal sphincter Segmentation Circular fold, villi, microvilli
Label the parts of the large intestine.
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)
What is the liver main function?
Making bile which metabolizes lipids
What is the gallbladder main function?
Concentrates and stores bile
What is the pancreas main function?
Head, body, tail, secretes digestive enzymes and bicarb into the duodenum
___ of food
Ingestion
____ of digestive juices
secretion
mixing and ___ of food
propulsion
___ of food into small, absorable molecules
digestion
____ of digestive products across the GI tract wall and into the body
Absorption
Is digestion mechanical or chemical digestion?
Both
What is the largest serous membrane in the body?
The peritoneum
What are the inner and outer surfaces of the peritoneum called?
Parietal Peritoneum (inner surface) & Visceral Peritoneum (outer surface)
What fluid is found in between the two peritoneal layers in the peritoneal cavity?
Peritoneal (serous) fluid
What holds the small intestine to the posterior abdominal wall?
Mesentery
What holds the large intestine to the posterior abdominal wall?
Mesocolon
The liver is bound to the anterior abdominal wall by the ____.
Falciform ligament
What attaches to the transverse colon and small intestine, and it resembles as a large, fatty-looking apron?
Greater Omentum
What connects to the medial curve of the stomach with the liver?
Lesser Omentum