Accessory Digestive Organs

Question 1

Mechnically breaks up food during mastication

Answer 1

Teeth

Question 2

Secretes enzymes that digest carbohydrates proteins lipids and nucleic acids

Answer 2

Pancreas

Question 3

Salivary glands located under the tongue with ducts that open in the floor of mouth

Question 4

Produces and secretes bile into ducts

Answer 4

Liver

Question 5

Peritoneal membrane that holds the small intestine to the posterior abdominal wall

Answer 5

Mesentery

Question 6

The secretions of this gland join with bile to enter the duodenum

Answer 6

Pancreas

Question 7

Peritoneal fold that holds liver to the anterior wall

Answer 7

Falciform ligament

Question 8

Manipulates food in mastication

Answer 8

Tongue

Question 9

Fatty large fold of peritoneum covering the transverse colon and small intestine

Answer 9

Greater omentum

Question 10

Largest salivary glands whose ducts open by the upper second molar

Answer 10

Parotid glands

Question 11

Stores and secrete bile in the duodenum

Answer 11

Gallbladder

Question 12

Peritoneal membrane that attaches the stomach and duodenum to the liver

Answer 12

Lesser omentum

Question 13

Salivary glands whose ducts open lateral to the lingual frenulum

Answer 13

Submandibular glands