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Digestive System Flashcards

1
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Teeth

A

Break down food so it moves faster

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2
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Types of teeth

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Front acts as knife, movers grind down food

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3
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Tungue

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Roles food to back of throat to help swallowing

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4
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Esophagus

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Muscles squeezing that push food to stomach

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5
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Liver

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Makes bile And detoxifies substance

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6
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Bile duct

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Path ways for bile to get to exit of stomach

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7
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Bile

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Helps register food .
neatrilze stomach acid

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8
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Gall bladder

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Stores bile so we always have enough

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9
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Small intentine

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Also known a villi

Narrow in diameter
Adored nutrients into blood

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10
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Appendix

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Unknown purpose
Could be a saferpom for bacteria
Is removed if about to burst

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11
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Salivary glands

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Softens food

Releases amylase
Converts starch into sugar

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Cardiac sphineter

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Keeps stomach acid in stomach. Not in throat

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13
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Stomach

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Moves food around in curulare motion

Reales amylase and hydrochloric acid

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14
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Pancreas

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Produce amzimes for digestion of food

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15
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Large intestine

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Absorbs water to reuse

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16
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Rectum

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Storage area for waste

17
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Anus

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Exit, keep waste inside until ready for realese

18
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How does the stomach protect its self

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A mucus membrane, mucus lning

19
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How does the stomach lining get damage

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Bacteria, stress., and diet.
Salt, alcohol, some drugs

20
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What is gall stone

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Bile salts that solidified

21
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Why is waste brown

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Bile that is not absorbed

22
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What function do the beneficial bacteria in our large intestine perform

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Collect leftover nutrients and breakdown more food

23
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What happens to the sugar that enters our bloodstream

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Goes to muscles first, but then stored for later in liver

24
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To what substance is the excess sugar converted

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Glicogine

25
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What function does the liver have that is unreplaceable

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The ability to fight toxins

26
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Pylori sphineter

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Constricted band of muscle that keeps food in stomach
Regulates Foo in stomach

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