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Apologia Exploring Creation With Health And Nutrition (2nd Edition) > Module 6: Processing Nourishment And Hydration > Flashcards

Module 6: Processing Nourishment And Hydration Flashcards

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Nutrients

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Small absorbable molecules that provide energy in necessary components for body growth

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Digestion

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The process of breaking down your nutrition in to absorbable nutrients

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Nutrition

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Your food

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Digestive system

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A long tube through which food passes

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Digestive enzymes

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The precise tool for cutting the chains of Nutrient units

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Absorb

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To transport the digested

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Epithelium

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A general term for a layer of surface cells in the body

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Epithelial cells

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The cells that cover the outside of your skin

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Mucus

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A clear

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Goblet cells

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Specialize cells that are shaped like stand glassware and produce lots of mucus

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Mucosa

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Epithelium that secretes mucus

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Submucosa

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The loose layer containing blood vessels and nerves

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Crypts

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Tiny cave like glands in the mucosa

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Ducts

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Small channels from the liver or pancreas

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Bile

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Digestive fluid that helps to emulsify sets

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Emulsify

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To stabilize as tiny droplets of water-based fluid

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Quadrant

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One side of one arch

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Incissors

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Teeth that have a sharp knife like edges for cutting

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Canine

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A tooth that comes to a point; useful for piercing and tearing suit

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Premolars/ bicuspids

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The teeth right behind the canines

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Molar

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The teeth behind the premolars

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Crown

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The part of the tooth that is visible in the mouth

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Enamel

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The sick smooth coating of calcium mineral that covers the Crown

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Dentin

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Under the enamel coat; less dense than calcium substance

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Root

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The part of the tooth and encased in the socket in the jaw bone

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Pulp

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Inside the hollow interior of the hard tooth; Composed of blood vessels and neurons

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Gingiva

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Specialized mucosa that surrounds each tooth

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Dental erosion

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When the tooth is exposed to acid in food or drink

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Tooth decay

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Slowly erodes a part of the tooth until it gets into the Dentin

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Saliva

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Spit

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Salivary glands

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Organs that produce saliva

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Salivary duct

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How the saliva travels from the gland to the mouth

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Starch

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A long chain of sugar molecules

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Bolus

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A swallowable Mass

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Satiety

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The feeling of satisfaction from having eaten enough food

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smooth muscles

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involuntary muscle found in internal organs

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skeletal muscles

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muscles attached to bone that cause body movements; you can control them

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involentary

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Not controlled by your will

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Peristalsis

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Waves of rhythmic

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Mixing waves

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Smooth muscle activity that sloshes digesting food back-and-forth with in a single organ

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Sphincters

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Muscular rains that act like Valves in the tube; Hold the contents in one section until the stage of digestion is complete

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Pharynx

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The throat

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Nasopharynx

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The nose part of the throat

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Soft palate

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The flexible part of the roof of your mouth

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Uvula

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The extension of the soft palate that dangles down

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Larynx

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The voice box or Adam’s apple

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Epiglottis

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An elastic flap of tissue in the pharynx

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Vocal folds

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Vocal cords

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Esophagus

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The soft

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upper esophageal sphincter

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In the pharynx

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lower esophageal sphincter

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The muscular ring at the top of the stomach

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Abdominal thrusts

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The Heimlich maneuver

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Umbilicus

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navel

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Gastric juice

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Acidic juice added by tiny glands in the wall of the stomach

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Chyme

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Bolus that is swallowed into smooth slurry

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hydrochloric acid

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Acid so strong and corrosive that it can dissolve many kinds of metal

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Pepsin

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A digestive enzyme

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Bulimia

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A mental or emotional disorder characterized by Forced vomiting

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Nausea

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The natural discomfort felt before vomiting

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Food poisoning

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The presence of harmful bacteria or other toxins in food

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Dehydrated

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the state in which a large amount of water has been lost or removed from the body or from food

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Gastroenteritis

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An infection of bacteria or viruses in the mucosa of the digestive track

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Vomiting

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The force the return of the stomach contents To the mouth to be expelled

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Intravenous

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also known as IV

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Heartburn

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When the lower esophagus sphincter is not firmly closed all the stomach is churning the stomach contents with hydrochloric send me a link up into the esophagus

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GERD

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Repeated episodes of heartburn

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Heart attack

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A lack of blood flow to parts of the heart

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Stomach ulcer

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An opened wound in the mucosa of the stomach

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Peptic ulcer

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Also known as stomach ulcer; An opened wound in the mucosa of the stomach

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pyloric sphincter

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At the lower end of the stomach; keeps the chyme from entering the small intestine until it is churned enough

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Duodenum

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The first section of the small intestine; about 12 inches long

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Jejunum

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The second part of the small intestine; about 8 feet long

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ileum

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The third part of the small intestine; about 11 feet long

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Duodenal ulcers

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Most of the time caused by an H. Pylori infection and can be treated with antibiotics

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Crypts

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Tiny openings in the mucosa through which enzymes can flow into the small intestine

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Lactose

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The sugar found in milk

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Lactase

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enzyme that breaks down lactose

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Lactose intolerance

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The inability to completely digest the milk sugar

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Villi

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Hair-like projections in the folds of the small intestine

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Microvilli

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Microscopic villi

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Villus

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A single villi

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Capillary

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The smallest kind of blood vessel; covers the villus

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Lacteals

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The smallest of lymph vessels

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Portal vein

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Is specialized blood vessel that passes through the liver

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Bile

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A cholesterol rich fluid that emulsifies fat in the small intestine

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Regenerate

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Replace with functional cells

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Gall bladder

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A small sac under the liver which concentrates the bile by returning some of the water and salt to the blood

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Common bile duct

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carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the duodenum

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Pancreas

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Soft

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Gall stones

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When the bile stored in the gallbladder loses too much salt in water and condenses into hard black balls the size of peas

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Gallbladder disease

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When a gallstone gets stuck in the small intestine

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Pancreatic duct

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Releases the pancreatic juice into the duodenum

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Bowel sounds

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Growling noises that come from the intestines

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Ileocecal sphincter

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The ring-like muscle that controls the chyme going from the small intestine to the large intestine

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Large intestine

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Also known as colon; The final section of the digestive system tube

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Cecum

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The small intestines entry sphincter

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Ascending colon

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Goes up towards your liver and makes a sharp turn to become the transverse colon

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Descending colon

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Travels down your left side after it turns from the ascending colon

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Sigmoid colon

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After the descending colon it bends into an S shape and widens a little towards the end

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Rectum

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Stores the waste

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Feces

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Waste matter

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Microbiome

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Layers of Organisms that are similar to bacteria

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Probiotic supplements

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Capsules that contain concentrated bacteria

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Prebiotics

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Foods with lots of fiber

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Anus

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A muscular opening at the end of the rectum through which waste material is eliminated from the body

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Anal Sphincter

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Made of mostly smooth muscles and is automatically kept tight closed by the nervous system

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Bowel movement/defecation

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The release of feces from your body

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Flatus

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gas expelled through the anus

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Flatulence

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passing gas

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Traveler’s diarrhea

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Caused by drink Unpurified water

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Regularity

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Something that happens regularly

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constipation

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The condition of less frequent and difficult to pass bowel movements

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hemorrhoids

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In large blood vessels in the anus

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Giardia

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parasite that can affect the small intestine; a protozoan

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Pinworms

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Less than half an inch in length and appear in the feces as thin white threads.

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Irritable bowel syndrome

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How many people respond to stress.

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gluten sensitivity

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An allergy to the wheat protein called gluten

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gluten

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insoluble protein found in wheat

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celiac disease

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The gluten damages the intestine by shortening intestinal villi and interfering with absorption

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Urinary system

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The humble servant of the body

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Nephrons

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Tiny filtration plants

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Tubule

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A tiny collecting tube to catch the 20% of fluid that leaks out of the blood

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Urea

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A chemical from broken-down amino acids

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Urine

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Fluid wastes removed from the body by the kidneys

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renal pelvis

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A large

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Ureter

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Eight tube 12 inches long that carries urine away from the kidney to the urinary bladder

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Electrolytes

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Salts in the body

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Hydrated

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Supplied with plenty of water

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Dehydration

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When your body doesn’t have enough water

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Hypernatremia

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When there isn’t enough water in your body and it makes your body weak and imbalanced with too much sodium in the blood

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Hyponatremia

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low sodium in the blood

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pH

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A number that can be from one

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Kidney stones

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Solid crystalline masses formed in the kidney.

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Lithotripsy

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High Sounds like crash the kidney stone

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urinary bladder

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A balloon like storage container for urine

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Urethra

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A tube between the base of the bladder and the outside surface

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urinary tract infection

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Bacterial infection of the urinary system

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Internist

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doctor who specializes in internal medicine

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Adolescent medicine

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Focuses on young patients

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geriatrics

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the care of elderly people

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Gastroenterologist

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Cats for people with digestive illnesses

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Nephrologist

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Cares for people with kidney disease

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Urologist

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Cares for surgical and medical problems in the urinary system

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Colon and rectal surgeon

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Cares for conditions affecting the large intestine

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Incisions

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surgical cuts into tissue

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Appendectomy

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removal of the appendix

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Endoscopy

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visual examination within

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Colonoscopy

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visual examination of the colon

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