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Exam 3 Lec Notes Contd Flashcards

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digestion essential for any organism’s survival, unless it’s ../..

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photosynthetic; autotrophic

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digestive system is considered to be … of the body, because it is a …

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outside; continuous canal

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symptoms that very closely resemble … in terms of physical sensations that patients are experiencing can actually be acid reflux/heartburn
intense bit of pain right in … of the chest
uncontrolled spurting of … into the esophagus, burning the esophagus over time

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heart attack;
middle;
HCl

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have to break foodstuffs down into small enough pieces that single cells of the digestive tract can … and make them available to the rest of the body

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absorb them into the bloodstream

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two major groups for organs of digestive system:
alimentary canal/GI tract/gut: continuous series of … that runs from the mouth to the anus; purpose is to … food and … from the lumen of the gut and directly into the blood itself

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musculature;
break down;
absorb it

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digestion requires a number of other systems in order to aid in the various processes GI tract is engaged in –> … organs

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accessory digestive

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accessory digestive organs:
not absolutely essential for survival and digestion
e.g. teeth
tongue mostly just … around mouth
gallbladder stores … which helps in the … of … - making fats …, and breaking them into smaller droplets that are more easily absorbed

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moves foodstuffs;
bile salts;
emulsification of fats;
smaller

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accessory digestive organs:
salivary glands help … food and produce … that help to break down foodstuffs
pancreas produces secretions that help to … foodstuffs - non-essential digestive …

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moisten; enzymes;

break down; enzymes

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accessive digestive organs:
liver- some of its functions IN TERMS OF DIGESTION are not absolutely essential –> other functions are extremely critical; primarily concerned with producing things being stored in the …

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gallbladder

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large intestine consists of …, …, and … colon

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ascending; transverse; descending

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pancreas is …. the stomach

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behind

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food moves from oral/buccal cavity, down into … and into the … –> the process of moving food down this path is called … (this doesn’t occur exclusively in the …)

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esophagus; stomach;

peristalsis; esophagus

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two muscle contraction types in GI tract:
peristalsis; moving … of food –> esophagus … food distally along the tract
segment: instead of having one smooth wave that moves from top to bottom, there is … contraction and relaxation

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bolus;
squeezes;
alternating

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segmentation:
how we’re going to try and help … more of the ingested food; can’t rely fully on chewing/mastication in order to fully break down our food small enough so that we can actively absorb most of the nutrients in that food

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mechanically break down

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food remains in the stomach around ..-… hours; mixing HCl in the stomach with enzymes and food to physically break it down so that it’s small enough to aid in physical absorption of nutrients

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4; 6

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segmentation occurs in the … and …

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small and large intestine

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anything …, containing …, severely … can’t be actively absorbed and is eliminated through defecation

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hard; fiber; keratinized

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stomach churns for a number of hours before it finally relaxes and ejects the food into the …, where the food undergoes waves of segmentation to …, and food is moved through three divisions of the small intestine and then into the large intestine

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small intestine;

mix foodstuffs up

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stomach largely there for … and … of food, not really for digestion. stomach not actively involved in absorbing most of the nutrients you intake– absorbed in …

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physical mixing; churning;

small intestine

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by time food is in large intestine, the … elements have already been absorbed. mostly indigestible materials and things that need to be … from the body in large intestine (e.g. stercobulin)

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digestible;

eliminated

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digestive system concerned with reclaiming as much … as possible

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water

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digestive system is incredibly …, moving through segmentation and peristalsis – wanna make sure that it doesn’t flip over itself when one is engaged in physical activity, don’t want it to wrap up around itself to inhibit further movement of material in GI tract.
want to hold digestive organs relatively in place and want to make sure that while they are moving, that movement is as … as possible –> achieved through the …

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mobile;
frictionless;
peritoneum

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… peritoneum sits on organs themselves

… peritoneum lies on abdominal wall

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visceral;

parietal

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…: double layer of peritoneum; can extend from … of abdominal cavity to … themselves

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mesentery; wall; digestive organs

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mesentery:
store more and more … in interior of mesentery as you age
not all organs are located in this mesentery –> … in peritoneum itself, … organs are n the back of the peritoneum

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fat;
intraperitoneal;
retroperitoneal

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peritonitis: inflammation of peritoneum; for the most part, this occurs due to some major … to GI tract
can be caused by extraordinarily severe … such that stuff from stomach leaks out onto peritoneum
if … this can happen as well –> dumps pathogens, toxic substances

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damage;
ulcer;
appendix bursts

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peritonitis:
fluid won’t be as effective when this happens and the organs then can’t …
cure: must physically go in and … (from outside and inside if impaled, or from inside if the damage is interior due to ulcer/ruptured appendix)
individual then put on megadoses of antibiotics for weeks to try to kill off anything that has been missed during the debris removal

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slide past one another;

remove debris

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ulcers are caused by …, not …
proved bc doctor drank a pure culture of the suspected bacteria and developed ulcers and then took antibiotics and cured them

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bacterial infection; stress

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(layers of alimentary canal) mucosa: actual layer that lines the …/physical dead space of the GI tract
secretes mucus, digestive enzymes, hormones
… from the lumen
protects against infectious disease

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lumen;

absorbs

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(layers of alimentary canal) 
mucosa: 
3 sublayers: 
epithelium - secretes mucus to protect cells from harsh environment that is the GI tract, particularly in the stomach, which has ... (otherwise the cells of the stomach would be digested, and the digestive enzymes would impact those cells as well); mucus also helps to trap any ... that may have come in with the bolus 
the cells of this layer are ...
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pH 1 HCl;
pathogens;
columnar

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(layers of alimentary canal) 
mucosa: 
3 sublayers: 
epithelium: 
mucus also acts as a ... - slippery in presence of ... - helps digestion and helps ease movement of food in that segmentation and peristalsis
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physical lubricant;

water

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(layers of alimentary canal) mucosa- 3 sublayers:
lamina propria: made up of connective tissue that has holes all over the place; in those holes, there are a huge number of …, which makes absorption very easy, very … layer of tissue that nutrients have to actually pass through

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capillaries;

easy

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(layers of alimentary canal) mucosa- 3 sublayers:
lamina propria:
MALT also contained here: mucosa - associated lymphoid tissue –> tiny cells that are hollow interiorly, and inside of these hollow … cells are tons of …
sitting there, acting like a tiny garrison fro WBCs – serve similar purpose as … in the mouth

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M;
white blood cells;
tonsils

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(layers of alimentary canal) mucosa-3 sublayers:

muscularis: smooth muscle that helps with localized …, not involved in physical movement of food (?)

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relaxation

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(layers of alimentary canal) submucosa: tubes leading into GI tract (e.g. blood vessels, etc)
… blood vessels here, … vessels, lymphoid follicles (like the … of the lymphatic system) and huge amount of nerves which innervate the entire GI track
huge innervation is why …/… is so intense

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large; lymphatic; capillaries;

cramps; stomach pain

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(layers of alimentary canal) muscularis externa: muscle layer responsible for segmentation and peristalsis
… layer of smooth muscle
this is the layer that gets … and thickens to form .. .that separate out various portions of the GI tract

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thickened;
expanded;
sphincters

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(layers of alimentary canal) serosa: outermost layer, and is the physical makeup of the visceral peritoneum; sits on … themselves;
in the esophagus, it’s not called serosa, it’s called the … which is a slightly denser connective tissue to hold it in place

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digestive organs;

adventitia

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separate set of circulatory tissues called hepatic portal circulation that drain directly off of the … and … and travel directly to the liver
done because, if there is any substance in a meal that was eaten that is toxic, you don’t want that going to the rest of the body, want it to be broken down - take that substance, absorb it directly from meal, and brought to liver as quickly as possible to be …

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stomach; small intestine;
broken down by enzymes in the liver (differences in these enzymes is why, for example, people can eat chocolate but dogs can’t)

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enteric nervous system: NS that innervates all of these organs; called the “…”; huge amount of nerves, has more neurons than spinal cord- this is why we intensely feel what’s going on in GI tract
enteric neurons are very highly … and … frequently

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second brain;

connected; communicate

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enteric nervous system:
…: main groupings of nerves
submucosal nerve plexus: innervates …
myenteric nerve plexus: primarily concerned with innervating …

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nerve plexuses;
submucosa;
muscularis externa

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enteric NS:
has two different reflex arcs:
short reflex arcs- reflexes that are going to be primarily responding to small stimuli in the GI tract itself (… triggered by short reflex arc when more … is sensed in the large intestine than should be there- large intestine primarily concerned with absorbing as much water as possible - signal that there’s something wrong (e.g. presence of a pathogen that is secreting a substance that is blocking …, in body’s best interest to flush that pathogenic organism out – this is how … work))

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diarrhea;
water;
reabsorption of water;
enema

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enteric NS:
has two different reflex arcs:
long reflex arcs: through both … and … innervation
para enhances digestion, sympathetic inhibits it by … out of the GI tract, making it available for .. system

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parasympathetic; sympathetic;

squeezing blood

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enteric NS:
short reflex arcs look for what’s going on in … itself
chemoreceptors to sense …
mechanoreceptors to make sure things are …
osmoreceptors to sense …

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GI tract;
chemicals;
physically moving;
excess water

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enteric NS:

long reflex arcs are because of things going on …; will … for a meal (e.g. seeing food, tasting it, smelling it)

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outside; prep GI tract

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… and … of digestion itself will let GI tract know whether the food should move on in digestion or remain in the place it is at the time

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beginning; end products

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long reflex arcs can ../… digestion
short reflex arcs - …/… NS controls (doesn’t need info from anywhere else)
long reflex arcs- …, stimulation from the …, from outside of GI tract

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activate; inhibit;
intrinsic; enteric;
extrinsic; brain

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hormones help control digestive activity - secreted by … and …

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stomach; small intestine

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cells of …, …, and part of … have extra layers of keratin for protection:
even if they’re damaged, they heal faster than any part of the body
these cells heal themselves in a matter of …, rather than days - important bc there are so many dangerous pathogens that enter mouth constantly

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gums; hard palate; tongue;

hours

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… is the physical lumen of mouth

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oral vestibule

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…: physical little pieces of tissue that connect lips to gums

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labial frenulum

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… takes up vast majority of oral cavity itself

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tongue

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… bone attaches to epiglottis, which closes when bolus is swallowed to prevent food from entering … and causing obstruction

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hyoid;

larynx

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soft palate goes back to form

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uvula

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tongue has two layers of muscle:
intrinsic - a lot of human variation with these (e.g. being able to … one’s tongue - because of how intrinsic muscles are … in interior of tongue - completely …)
extrinsic

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roll;
layered;
genetic

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tongue attached by floor of mouth by … –> connective tissue that keeps tongue physically anchored, to prevent swallowing of tongue when swallowing food

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lingual frenulum

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people with severe cases of ankyloglossia can’t physically … past the exterior of oral cavity
makes speech very difficult
but can be fixed rather easily by snipping …, to free tongue up from floor of mouth and make it more …

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stick out their tongues;
frenulum;
extendable

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saliva allows for physical … of mouth to remove substances that get stuck during mastication, helps … food for taste (dry food doesn’t have intense flavor, because molecules aren’t … at the same speed as when in aqueous environment so not binding to taste receptors as much)
contains … which breaks down carbs/starches –> physically snips individual monomers from carb chains

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cleansing;
dissolve;
vibrating;
amylase

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most of saliva made by … salivary glands:

…, …, …

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extrinsic;

parotid; submandibular; sublingual

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… located on either side of the head- huge, produce vast majority of saliva

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parotid

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parotid duct leaves from where … start to about midway from back row of tooth and secrete saliva from either side of …

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cheeks;

oral cavity

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submandibular glands have a submandibular duct that comes up right in front of the lingual frenulum
lifting of tongue and movement of jaw …
sublingual gland has a number of ducts

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squirts saliva

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salivary glands’ proper composed of two types of cells:
serous cells produce most of salvia - the … part, …, … (saliva is fairly … which helps … in the mouth) and mucin
mucous cells: produce mucos

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watery; 
amylase
ions; 
salty; 
kill microorganisms
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mumps: virus that lead to inflammation of … that leads to .. of these glands
spreads through saliva
if you try to eat something acidic, that triggers … and there’s a lot of pain

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parotid glands; swelling;

salivary reflex

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