Lecture Urinary System Flashcards
Wavelike movement of food is called?
Peristalsis
What structures in the oral cavity help fight disease?
Tonsils
Chewing is also know as
Masticate
What is the usual molecule that supplies energy directly to a cell?
ATP
What does digestion do?
Supplies the molecules that cells/mitochondria can use to make ATP
Defecation is also known as
Egestion
What’s the dental formula?
2/2,1/1,2/2,3/3X2=32
What do salivary enzymes do?
Carbohydrate digestion
What and where is MALT?
Lymphatics, tunica mucosa
What is the Esophageal hiatus?
Where Esophagus goes thru diaphragm
Where do you find parietal, chief and enteroendocrine cells?
Stomach, gastric glands
Which produces HCl? Gastrin?
Parietal, enteroendocrine
What increases surface area in small intestines?
Plicae circulares, villi, microvilli..
What is a lacteal?
Lymphatic vessels in villi, absorb lipids
Where does bile enter the G.I. Tract?
Duodenum
A cluster of MALT in the small intestine is known as
Peyer’s patches
The membrane that suspends the stomach is the
Lesser omentum
The ligament that suspends the liver is
Coronary ligament
Acinar cells (acini) are found where and do what?
Pancreas, digestive enzymes..
What are gallstones made of?
Cholesterol
What ingredient in bile comes from RBC’s?
Bilirubin
What are the two ways that blood can enter the liver?
Hepatic artery and Hepatic portal vessel
What is a Triad?
At each corner of hepatic lobule, hepatic artery, hepatic portal vein and bile duct
Function of oral cavity?
Mechanical and chemical- carb. digestion
Function of stomach?
Mechanical (chyme) and chemical- protein
Function of small intestine?
Chemical (all classes) & absorption