DIGESTIVE 2 Flashcards
(51 cards)
The large intestine absorbs _____ from remaining indigestible food residues - turns fluid chyme into more solid faeces
water
The _________ _______ frames the small intestine and extends from the ileocecal valve to the anus
large intestine
The ______ is the first part of the large intestine
Cecum
The ascending colon makes a right angle turn near the liver called the _________ ________ ________
Right hepatic flexure
The transverse colon makes a sharp turn inferiorly- anterior to the spleen called the _______ _______ flexture
Left splenic
This sigmoid colon joins the rectum in the ________
Pelvis
The ________ is the last part of the large intestine
anal canal
Is the internal anal sphincter involuntary smooth muscle or voluntary smooth muscle
Involuntary
Think: internal= involuntary
Abdominal aorta, inferior vena cava, kidneys, adrenal glands, ureters, ascending colon, descending colon, distal duodenum and pancreas (head & body) are all examples of ___________ organs
Retro-peritoneal
The cecum, appendix, transverse colon, sigmoid colon, proximal duodenum, jejunum, ileum, spleen, pancreas are all examples of _________ organs
intraperiotneal
What is the blood supply to the digestive system
Oxygenated blood from the heart via the abdominal aorta
The common hepatic artery, splenic artery and left gastric artery are all branches of the _____ trunk ( a large branch of the abdominal aorta)
celiac
The ______ ______ artery supplies the stomach and inferior oesophagus with blood
Left gastric
The ______ artery passes deep to the stomach, branches to pan crease and terminates in spleen
splenic
The common hepatic artery supplies the _______ and the ________ and stomach via the right gastric artery from the common hepatic artery
Duodenum and pancreas
The hepatic artery proper serves the _______ with blood supply
Liver
The superior _______ artery supplies the cecum, appendix, seconding colon, part of the transverse colon
Messenteric
The ________ Messenteric artery supplies the distal part of huge large intestine
Inferior
The hepatic portal system transports blood from _______ organs to the liver
GI
What drains the small intestine
Superior mesenteric vein
What drains the distal large intestine and joins the splenic vein
Inferior mesenteric vein
The ______ vein drains the spleen, parts of the stomachs and joins to the superior mesenteric vein
Splenic
_______ ______ vein: nutrient rich blood from GI organs may contain a robed toxins and pathogens - blood is sent to the liver for treatment prior to delivery to the. Rest of their body
Hepatic portal
________ process nutrients and toxins whilst ________ phagocytose bacteria
Hepatocytes
Macrophages
