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What organs are part of the alimentary canal?

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The GI tract; mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus.

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What are the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus a part of?

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The alimentary canal

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What does the digestive system do?

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It digests food and absorbs materials

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What is mechanical digestion?

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Chewing, mixing, churning, segmentation, etc

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What is chewing, mixing, churning, and segmentation?

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Mechanical digestion

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What’s chemical digestion?

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The breaking down of molecules with enzymes

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What is the breaking down of molecules with enzymes?

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Chemical digestion

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What is the difference between mechanical and chemical digestion?

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Mechanical is chewing and mixing, chemical is enzymes breaking stuff down

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What is ingestion?

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Taking in food

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What is taking in food called?

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Ingestion

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What is propulsion?

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Moving food through the digestive system

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What is moving food through the digestive system called?

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Propulsion

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What is absorption?

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When chemicals are absorbed across the wall of the lumen

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What is it called when chemicals are absorbed across the wall of the lumen?

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Absorption

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What is defection?

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The elimination of indigestible materials

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What is the elimination of indigestible materials called?

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Defection

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What are the two main types of receptors in the GI tract?

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Mechanoreceptors and chemoreceptors

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What is the mesentery?

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It’s a double layer of peritoneum extending from the body wall

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What’s a double layer of peritoneum extending from the body wall?

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The mesentery

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What does the mesentery do?

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It connects to organs in the body cavity and routes nerves/vessels/lymphatics

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What connects to organs in the body cavity?

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The mesentery

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What routes nerves/vessels/lymphatics?

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The mesentery

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What is splanchnic circulation?

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Arteries that serve digestive organs

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What are arteries that serve digestive organs a part of?

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Splanchnic circulation

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What are the four tunics of the alimentary canal?
Mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, serosa
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What are the Mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, & serosa a part of?
The tunics of the alimentary canal
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What does the mucosa do?
It absorbs nutrients, protects against disease, and secretes mucus enzymes
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What tunic absorbs nutrients, protects against disease, and secretes mucus enzymes?
The mucosa
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What tunic is made up of simple columnar epithelial tissue?
Mucosa
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What does the submucosa do?
It contains blood, nervous tissue, and lymph and it supplies blood to the GI wall
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What contains blood, nervous tissue, and lymph and it supplies blood to the GI wall?
The submucosa
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What does the muscularis do?
It controls sphincters, peristalsis, and segmentation
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What controls sphincters, peristalsis, and segmentation?
The muscularis
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What is the serosa?
The outer alimentary tunic
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What tunic is made up of connective loose tissue and some elastic?
The submucosa
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What is the submucosa made up of?
Loose connective tissue and some elastic
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What is the muscularis made up of?
Circular on the inner layer and longitudinal on the outer layer
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What tunic is made up of a circular inner layer and a longitudinal outer layer?
The muscularis
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What tunic is made up of visceral peritoneum and loose areolar with a simple squamous surface?
The serosa
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What makes up the serosa?
Visceral peritoneum and loose areolar with a simple squamous surface
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What is the enteric nervous system?
A semiautomatic part of the nervous system that's controlled by the sympathetic and parasympathetic
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What is controlled by both the sympathetic and parasympathetic?
The enteric nervous system
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What regulates activity of glands and smooth muscle in the mucosa?
The enteric nervous system
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What does the enteric nervous system do?
It regulates activity of glands and smooth muscle in the muscosa
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What does saliva do?
It dissolves food chemicals for tasting, moistens food to compact into balls, and contains chemical digestion enzymes
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How long is the esophagus?
25 cm
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What's a special feature of the esophagus?
It's collapsed when inactive
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Where does the esophagus end?
When it joins the stomach at the cardiac oriface/cardiac sphincter
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How big is the stomach?
It's 6-10 inches long and 50 ml when empty + 2 L when full
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What is a part of the stomach?
Rugae
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What are the three regions of the stomach?
Cardiac, fundus, and pyloric
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What are cardiac, fundus, and pyloric names for?
They're the three regions of the stomach
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What does the stomach do?
It continues the work of the oral cavity by digesting food with enzymes and delivering chyme to the small intestine
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What delivers chyme to the small intestine?
The stomach
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How doesn't the stomach digest itself?
The mucosal barrier
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What are the three phases of gastric secretion?
Cephalic, gastric, and intestinal
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What do cephalic, gastric, and intestinal mean?
They're the three phases of gastric secretion
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Describe the cephalic phase
It's a conditioned reflex that's triggered by thought and smell that happens before the food even enters the stomach
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Whats an example of a conditioned reflex?
The cephalic phase
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Describe the gastric phase
It takes 3-4 hours and involves digestive juices
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Which phase is especially involved with digestive juices?
The gastric phase
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What happens during the intestinal phase?
A surge followed by "gastric breaks"
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How big is the small intestine?
2-4 meters long, 2.5-4 centimeters in diameter
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What is responsible for virtually all absorption?
The small intestine
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What are the three parts of the small intestine?
Duodenum, jejenum, and ilium
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What happens in the duodenum?
Accessory organs give their contents to the duodenum
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What holds all the parts of the small intestine in place?
The mesentery
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Where are circular folds, villi, and microvilli more prominent?
In the proximal portion where absorption is greatest
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What do circular folds, villi, and microvilli do for the small intestine?
They increase surface area by 600 times
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Where are circular folds, villi, and microvilli located?
In the small intestine
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Where are goblet cells and peyers patches more prominent?
In the distal portion of the small intestine
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What does the liver do?
It produces bile
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What does bile do?
It emulsifies fat
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What produces bile?
The liver
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What are the parts of the hepatic triad?
Hepatic artery branch, hepatic portal, vein branch, and bile duct
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What do acinar cells do?
They make 1200-1500 milliliters of pancreatic juice a day
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What makes pancreatic juice?
Acinar cells
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Which alimentary juice is slightly basic?
Pancreatic juice
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What is in pancreatic juice?
Water, enzymes, and electrolytes
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What part activates pancreatic juice?
The duodenum
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What does the pancreas do?
It makes pancreatic juice
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How big is the large intestine?
It's 1.5 meters long and 7 centimeters in diameter
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What does the large intestine do?
It absorbs remaining water
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What are teniae coli?
3 bands of longitudinal muscle in the large intestine
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What are the 3 bands of longitudinal muscle in the large intestine called?
Teniae coli
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What are the haustra?
Pocket-like sacs in the large intestine
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What are the pocket-like sacs in the large intestine called?
Haustra
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What are epiploitic appendages?
Fatty visceral peritoneum hanging on the surface of the large intestine
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What are the features of the large intestine?
Teniae coli, haustra, epipiolic appendages, bacterial flora
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How many types of bacterial flora are there?
10 million
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What do bacterial flora do?
They metabolize host molecules, ferment indigestible carbs, synthesize B complex and vitamin K, and help the immune system
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What metabolizes host molecules and ferment indigestible carbs?
The bacterial flora
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What are the byproducts of bacterial flora?
Acid and up to 500 ml of gas a day
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What synthesizes B complex and vitamin K?
Bacterial flora
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What do bacterial flora synthesize?
B complex and vitamin K
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What part of the alimentary canal helps the immune system?
Bacterial flora in the large intestine

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