Ingestion Flashcards
Ingestion
The food is taken in and enters the alimentary canal
Digestion
Food is exposed to mechanical and chemical process that change solid food to soluble substances.
Absorption
Double substances are absorbed into the bloodstream.
Assimilation
The cells absorbs the nutrients from the blood, uses to build new cell structures.
Egestion
The process which undirected remains are removed from the body in the form of faeces
Uvula
The soft pallet that dangles
Bolus
Food mixed with saliva
Parotid salivary glands
Below the ears
Submandibular
Located in the lower jaw
Sublingual salivary glands
Located in the tongue
Normal pancreatic cells
That secrete the digestive juice, pancreatic juice
The islets of lamgerhans
Secrets incline and glucagon
Deamination
Excess amino acids are broken down to produce urea and glucose
Peristalsis
The rhythmic contraction and relxation of the muscles in the wall of the alimentary canal
Duodenum
This is the shortest part of the small instestine