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Gastrointestinal System Flashcards

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1
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Two main groups of the digestive system

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Alimentary canal and accessory digestive organs

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What is the alimentary canal also called?

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Gastrointestinal tract or gut

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What is the alimentary canal?

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A continuous, coiled hollow muscular tube that winds through the ventral body cavity from stomach to anus.

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Organs of the alimentary canal

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Mouth, pharynx, esophagus stomach, small intestine, and large intestine.

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Which opening does the large intestine lead to?

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Terminal opening or anus 

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In a cadaver, the alimentary canal is approximately how many meters or feet long?

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9 m or 30 feet long

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7
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A part of the mouse that protects the anterior opening.

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Lips or labia

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The lateral walls of the mouth.

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Cheeks

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Anterior roof of the mouth

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Hard palate

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10
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Posterior roof of the mouth

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Soft palate

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Fleshy finger like projection of the soft palate

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Uvula

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Space between lips and cheeks externally, and the teeth and gums internally

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Vestibule 

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13
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Area contained by the teeth

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Oral cavity proper

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Occupies the floor of the mouth and has several bony attachments

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Muscular tongue

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Fold of mucous membrane that secures the tongue to the floor of the mouth

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Lingual frenulum

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Name the three parts of the pharynx

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Nasopharynx, oropharynx, and laryngopharynx

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The two skeletal muscle layers of the pharynx

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Inner layer cells and outer layer cells

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18
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It runs from the pharynx to the diaphragm to the stomach

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Esophagus

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19
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What is peristalsis

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A propelling mechanism

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20
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What are the four basic tissue layers that make up the walls of the alimentary canal organs?

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Mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa and serosa

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It is the innermost layer of the four basic tissue layers

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Mucosa

22
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What does the mucosa consist primarily of?

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A surface epithelium, a small amount of connective tissue (lamina propria), and a scanty smooth muscle layer

23
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What kind of tissue is the esophagus made of?

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Friction resisting stratified squamous epithelium

24
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A soft, connective tissue layer beneath the mucosa

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Submucosa

25
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The muscle layer of the esophagus and is made up of an inner circular layer and an outer longitudinal layer of smooth muscle cells

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Muscularis externa

26
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The outer most layer of wall that consists of a single layer of visceral peritoneum

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Serosa

27
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This a flat serus fluid producing cell

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Visceral peritoneum 

28
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Where is the stomach located

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Left side of abdominal cavity, and is nearly hidden by liver and diaphragm

29
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The stomach varies from ______ in length

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15 to 25 cm or 6 to 10 inches

30
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When full the stomach can hold up to how many liters

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4 L or 1 gallon 

31
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Rugae happens when the mucosa is thrown into large folds when an empty stomach collapses inward on itself. What does rugae mean?

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Wrinkle or fold

32
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Is the region of the stomach surrounding cardioesophageal sphincter

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Cardial region or Cardia

33
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It is the expanded part of the stomach and is lateral to the cardial region

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Fundus

34
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The middle portion region of the stomach

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Body

35
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Is the funnel shaped terminal part of the stomach that is continuous with the small intestine through the pyloric sphincter or valve

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Pylorus

36
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It protects the stomach wall from being damaged by acid and digested by enzymes.

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Bicarbonate-rich alkaline mucus

37
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What is the substance produced by stomach cells that are needed for absorption of vitamin B 12 from the small intestine

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Intrinsic factor

38
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Cells that produce protein digesting enzymes

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Chief cells

39
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Cells that produce corrosive hydrochloric acid and makes the stomach contents acidic 

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Parietal cells 

40
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Cells in the stomach that produce a thin acidic mucus

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Mucous neck cells

41
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Cells that produce local hormones, such as gastrin

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Enteroendocrine cells

42
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Where in the stomach does the most digestive activity occur?

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Pyloric region 

43
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Result after food has been processed in the stomach

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Chyme

44
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The chime enters the small intestine through the _______

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Pyloric sphincter

45
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What covers the abdominal organs like a lacy apron?

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Greater omentum

46
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What Is the body’s major digestive organ?

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Small intestine 

47
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The small intestine extends from the _____ to the _____.

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Pyloric sphincter to the large intestine 

48
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The average length of the longest section of the alimentary tube

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2 to 4 m or 7 to 13 feet 

49
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The small intestine is suspended from the posterior abdominal wall, except the

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Duodenum or the initial part 

50
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Three subdivisions of the small intestine

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Duodenum, jejunum and ileum 

51
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What are the three subdivisions of the small intestine? 

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 Duodenum jejunum and ileum

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