Digestive Organs Flashcards
What organ is used to mechanically, and chemically digest your food?
Mouth
Enzyme in saliva that breaks down carbohydrates into simple sugars
Amylase
What is the Pharynx for?
Passageway for food and digestion
What is used to block out two sections, and a flap of cartilage that prevents food from going down the trachea?
Epiglottis
What is the Esophagus?
Muscular tube to which food passes from the pharynx to the stomach
What is the wave-like motion of the Esophagus?
Peristalsis
What stores the swallowed, and mixes food with the digestive juice?
Stomach
What is chyme?
The food that is further digested
What is the Duodenum?
the chyme has to pass through the duodenum first before the small intestine
What produces bile?
Liver
What is the Gallbladder?
Where bile is temporarily stored, and concentrated
What is the Pancreas?
Secretes enzymes that digest fats and carbohydrates
What is the primary site of the absorption of the nutrients and vitamins?
Small Intestine
What is the Large Intestine?
Site of the major water absorption, chyme is dehydrated into feces, and absorbs vitamins produced by symbiotic bacteria in colon
What’s the vestigial organ that serves little purpose?
Appendix
