Test 1 Flashcards
The length of the GI tract in a living person
Half a cadaver’s length because of muscle tone, about 15 feet (30 in cadaver)
The ACCESSORY DIGESTIVE ORGANS include
salivary glands, pancreas & biliary system (liver & gall bladder).
The basic functions of the GI tract are to:
separate ingested food into essential nutrients & unnecessary wastes
absorb the former while getting rid of the latter
Smooth muscle in the walls of the GI tract maintains a constant low level of contractions known as
tone
Tone is important in
maintaining a steady pressure on the contents of the GI tract as well as in preventing its walls from remaining permanently stretched following distention.
3 basic types of motility:
- propulsive movements or PERISTALSIS
- mixing movements or SEGMENTATION
- TONIC CONTRACTIONS of sphincters or valves
Promotes mechanical digestion of food
Motility - SEGMENTATION
What does the mechanical digestion of food by motility Promote?
Facilitates absorption by exposing all portions of the intestinal contents to the absorbing surfaces of the GI tract
These GI checkpoints also serve to regulate the movement of luminal contents
Tonic contractions of sphincters, with intermittent relaxation,
All of the GI sphincter muscles are Completely dependent on involuntary contractions of smooth muscle except for…
The sphincters at both ends…
The early portion of the esophagus
(including the UES), and The External Anal Sphincter
regulates movement of contents of the
common bile duct into the duodenum
Sphincter of Oddi
How much Saliva Does the human body make in a typical day?
1.5 L
How much gastric juice Does the human body make in a typical day?
2.5 L
How much bile Does the human body make in a typical day?
0.5 L
How much pancreatic juice Does the human body make in a typical day?
1.5 L
How much intestinal secretion Does the human body make in a typical day?
1.0 L
How much mucus Does the human body make in a typical day?
2.0L
volume of fluid entering or secreted into the lumen of the GI tract each day
9L
From the daily 9L of fluid, approximately how much ends up in stool daily, with the balance recycled back to the body.
100 ml
The breakdown process whereby the structurally complex foodstuffs of the diet are converted into smaller absorbable units Occurs by…
mechanically via the aforementioned motility and chemically via enzymes
What quadrant is the Liver Located in?
RUQ: Right lobe
LUQ: Left Lobe
What quadrant is the Gallbladder Located in?
RUQ
What quadrant is the Stomach Located in?
RUQ: Pyloris
LUQ: the rest
What quadrant is the Spleen Located in?
ULQ
What quadrant is the Duodenum Located in?
RUQ: Parts 1/3
What quadrant is the Pancreas Located in?
RUQ: head
LUQ: body and tail
What quadrant is the Kidney+Adrenal gland Located in?
RUQ: Right
RLQ: Left
What quadrant are the colic flexures Located in?
RUQ: right hepatic fixture
ULQ: colic splenic flexure
What quadrant is the Ascending colon Located in?
URQ: superior part
LRQ: Inferior part
What quadrant is the Transverse colon Located in?
URQ: right half
ULQ: Left half
What quadrant is the Descending colon Located in?
ULQ: left half
LLQ: inferior part
What quadrant is the Cecum Located in?
RLQ
What quadrant is the Vermiform appendix Located in?
RLQ
What quadrant is most of the ileum Located in?
RLQ
What quadrant are the uterine tubes and ureters Located in?
RLQ, and LLQ
What quadrant are the ovaries Located in?
RLQ, and LLQ
What quadrant are the ovaries Located in?
RLQ, and LLQ
9 Abdominal- Pelvic Regions
RH | E | LH
RL | U | LL
RI | P | LI
Right Hypochondriac, Epigastric, Left Hypochondriac Right Lateral (Lumbar) , Umbilical, Left Lateral (Lumbar) Right Inguinal (Groin) , Pubic, Left Inguinal (Groin)
is a slick serous membrane of the abdominopelvic cavity
peritoneum
covers the external surfaces of most digestive organs and is continuous with the parietal peritoneum
visceral peritoneum
lines the walls of the abdominopelvic cavity.
parietal peritoneum
is the condition characterized by the accumulation of peritoneal fluid.
Ascites
contains large folds that weave between the viscera hangs loosely from the transverse colon and small intestine
greater omentum,