Digestive System Part 1 Flashcards
The digestive system consists of what two parts?
The alimentary canal and associated organs or accessory digestive organs
What is the alimentary canal?
Also called the GI tract, which consists of the mouth, most of the pharyx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine
What does the associated or accessory digestive organs consists of?
Tongue (PB), teeth (PB), salivary glands (S), pancreas (S), liver (S), and gallbladder (S)
What are the 8 major processes of the digestive system?
Ingestion, secretion, mixing and propulsion, digestion, absorption, defecation, barrier, and immunologic function
How much fluid is secreted into the digestive system per day?
About seven liters
What are the two main types of digestion?
Mechanical and chemical
What is the mouth also referred to as?
The oral or buccal cavity
What is the oral cavity bound by?
Cheeks, hard and soft palate, tongue, and floor of the mouth
Define the lips.
Or labia, are fleshy folds that surround the opening of the mouth and contain the orbicularis oris muscle; the lips are the location of the mucocutanous junction
What does the oral cavity open to?
The oropharynx
What are the fauces?
This is the opening from the oral cavity to the oropharynx
What are the two main parts of the oral cavity?
The vestibule and the oral cavity proper
What is the vestibule?
This is the part of the oral cavity between the lips and teeth and between the cheeks and teeth
What is the oral cavity proper?
The superior border is the hard and soft palates; inferior border is the tongue and floor of the mouth; posterior border is the entrance to the oropharynx; all other borders are the teeth
What percent of saliva is solute and water?
Solute: 0.5%
Water: 99.5%
How much saliva is secreted per day?
1 - 1.5 liters
What are the five digestive and protective roles saliva plays?
Moisten oral mucosa, moisten dry foods, provide medium for food materials to dissolve so they can chemically stimulate taste buds, buffer contents of oral cavity, and contains amylase that partially breaks down starch
What are the two things in saliva that allow for buffering?
bicarbonate and phosphate ions
What does the pharynx connect?
Nasal and oral cavities to larynx and esophagus
What is the pharynx a passage way for?
Food and air
What tissue lines the pharynx?
Respiratory epithelium (ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium) and some stratified squamous epithelium
The pharynx is divided into what three things?
The nasopharynx, oropharynx, and the laryngopharynx
Where is the nasopharynx located?
found posterior to the nasal cavity, superior to the soft palate
Where is the oropharynx located?
Posterior to the oral cavity; between level of soft palate to the epiglottis
Where is the laryngopharynx located?
Begins at the superior border of the upright epiglottis and opens into the esophagus and larynx
What tissue lines the nasopharynx?
Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium
What passes through the nasopharynx?
Air passageway only