Organs And Systems Flashcards
What are the 5 main systems?
Respiratory, Circulatory, musculoskeletal, nerve, digestive.
What is the order of organs in the digestive tract?
- Mouth
- Esophagus
- Stomach
- Small intestine (small bowel)
- Large intestine (colon) (large bowel)
- Rectum and anus (also large bowel)
What’s the order of tissue in the digestive tubes/tract (from outside in)
- Epithelial tissue
- Connective tissue
- Nerve tissue (runs through the tissue all the way to inner epithelial)
- Smooth muscle tissue
- Connective tissue
- Epithelial tissue (with goblet cells)
7*. Villi epithelial tissue (only in small intestine)
What are goblet cells used for?
Secreting mucus.
What is the function of mucus in the digestive tract?
- Provide a smoother, slippery surface for food to slide down
- Protects digestive tract tissue from digestive enzymes
What’s the two kinds of digestion? What are the differences?
Chemical- enzymes and acid dissolves the food
Mechanical- chewing or smooshing of food (like teeth or stomach contracting)
What’s the function of esophagus?
- Connects mouth and stomach and moves food down through slow sweeping muscle contractions (that’s why there’s smooth muscle tissue)
What’s the function of the stomach?
-Stores and breaks down food
-uses acids and enzymes to dissolve food
-contractions of smooth muscle tissue mixes the food around (mechanical digestion)
What’s the structure of small intestine? Function?
-Long narrow coiled stretch of digestive tract
-Would be about 6 meters stretched out
-where most digestion occurs (nutrients taken)
-lots of capillaries in the tissue to absorb the nutrients.
- villi increase surface area to increase diffusion efficiency
- goblet cells in epithelial tissue creates mucus
What is the function of the Large intestine (colon).
The lining of the large intestine absorbs water from the leftover waste. What’s left is solid fecal matter.
Function of rectum and anus.
Rectum stores fecal matter before it is released through the anus.
What structures are used to increase surface area of the small intestine to improve absorption efficiency. What type of specialized cells are they made of?
Villi made of epithelial cells.
What kind of cells create mucus? Where are they located?
Goblet cells. Small and large and intestines (bowels) and trachea.
What are the 3 main accessory organs and 1 extra in the digestive system. What does accessory mean.
Accessory organs are placed where food doesn’t directly go through, but digestion is affected by.
- Liver
- Gall bladder
- Pancreas
4*. Appendix (not really necessary)
What does the liver do?
Produces a chemical fluid called bile which allows us to digest fat into a fatty acid which is capable of being absorbed by the small bowel.
Also cleans toxins out of blood and disposes of old red blood cells.
What does the gallbladder do?
Stores bile from the liver. When signalled, it releases it into the small intestine.
What does Pancreas do?
Produces insulin.
What are enzymes.
Proteins that act as biological catalysts (things that speed up chemical reactions such as dissolving of food).
Why are CNS injuries so serious, long term, and chronic
CNS controls major functions
The brain can easily suffer permanent damage
Spinal cord is incapable of regeneration.