Digestive System Flashcards
Where does plant material gets broken down by in the cow
The Rumen
What’s transports food from the mouth to the stomach
Oesophagus
What is the material that leaves the stomach called
Chyme
What enzyme breaks down fat
Lipase
The longest part to the small intestine
Jejunum
What do you call an animal that chews its cud
Ruminant
What is the sphincter at the distal end of the stomach called
Pyloric sphincter
What is the emptying time of a dogs stomach? A cats stomach?
6-8 hours dogs and 4-6 hours in cats
What transports bile from the gall bladder to the small intestine
Common bile duct
Where does digestion mostly take place in carnivores
Duodenum
How does food move along intestinal tract
?? Find in book
The process of breaking down food into smaller molecules by enzymes is
Chemical digestion
What organ produces these enzymes
Pancreas
What’s organ is responsible for processing’s the products of digestion’s
The liver
The functions of the liver
Responsible for irons and vitamin storage, for bile formation, urea formation, drug metabolism, removing bacteria from the blood
Function of saliva
To moisten and lubricate food matter to aid swallowing
What can cause excessive salivation
Poison or toxin
Main section of the stomach is called?
Body
Sphincter at the end of the stomach
Pyloric sphincter
Sphincter at the beginning of the stomach
Cardiac sphincter
How many hours till a dogs and cats stomach empty’s
6-8 hours in dogs
4-6 hours in cats
What’s a ruminant
Animals that’s chew their cud and 4 parts to their stomach
Main site of digestion
Small intestine
Duodenum what is it
The first part of the small intestine and the major digestive organ
Jejunum what is it
Longest part of small intestine
Ileum what is it
Short part of small intestine and joins to large intestine
What’s the main site of absorption in small intestine
Jejunum and ileum
Three sections of the large intestine
Caecum colon and rectum
Main functions of large intestine
Water and electrolyte recovery and storage of faeces
What’s peristalisis
The process of food moving through the digestive tubing
Amylase does what
Breaks down starch
Lipase does what
Breaks down fat
Trypsinogen does what
Breaks down protein into amino acids
What’s the gall bladder do and where is it located
Located against the causes aspect of the liver and the bile duct carried bile to the duodenum
4 Liver functions
Iron storage, vitamin storage, drug metabolism and urea formation
What’s the caecum
Lines between small intestine and colon it is functionless in carnivores
What’s the colon and where?
Large intestine, storAge of faeces
The two important blood supplies to the liver
Blood from sorts and hepatic portal system
Function of pylorus
Allows small amount of food enter the duodenum in intervals
