Topic 15 - Digestive system (C) Flashcards
1
Q
Digestive system structures:
A
- Oral cavity
- Salivary glands
- Dentition (teeth)
- Oropharynx and Laryngopharynx
- Esophagus
- Stomach
- Small intestine
- Small intestine accessory organs
- Large intestine
2
Q
Oral cavity
includes:
A
- lips
- cheeks
- palate
- hard palate
- soft palate (posterior to hard palate)
- tongue
3
Q
oral cavity
includes palate:
hard palate
A
2 maxillae + 2 palatine bones
4
Q
oral cavity
includes palate
soft palate:
- posterior to:
- ______ muscle
- ________ projection called ______
- rises to…
A
- posterior to hard palate
- skeletal muscle
- posterior projection = uvula
- rises to close the nasopharynx when swallowing
5
Q
oral cavity
tongue
- attached to?
- _______ muscle
- projections of _______ = papillae (taste buds)
A
- attached to hyoid bone
- skeletal muscle
- projections of mucosa = paillae (taste buds)
6
Q
Oral cavity:
EVERYTHING
A
7
Q
Salivary glands:
- how many pairs and what are they called?
- saliva
- composed of what and list the percentage
A
- 3 pairs
- parotid
- submandibular
- sublingual
- saliva
- 99.5% water
- 0.5 solutes (enzymes)
8
Q
salivary glands
3 pairs: parotid
A
- inferior and anterior to ears
- mumps = inflammation of 1 or both parotids
9
Q
salivary glands
3 pairs: submandibular
A
floor of mouth
10
Q
salivary glands
3 pairs: sublingual
A
below tongue on floor of mouth
11
Q
- inferior and anterior to ears
- mumps = inflammation of 1 or both parotids
A
salivary glands
3 pairs: parotid
12
Q
floor of mouth
A
salivary glands
3 pairs: submandibular
13
Q
below tongue on floor of mouth
A
salivary glands
3 pairs: sublingual
14
Q
saliva is composed of what and list the percentage
A
- 5% water
- 5% solutes
15
Q
dentition
- located where?
- child dentition
- _____ dentition - ______ (“baby”) teeth
- adult dentition
- _____ dentition - ______ teeth
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