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1
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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.

2
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What are the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus a part of?

A

The alimentary canal

3
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What does the digestive system do?

A

It digests food and absorbs materials

4
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What is mechanical digestion?

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Chewing, mixing, churning, segmentation, etc

5
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What is chewing, mixing, churning, and segmentation?

A

Mechanical digestion

6
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What’s chemical digestion?

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The breaking down of molecules with enzymes

7
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What is the breaking down of molecules with enzymes?

A

Chemical digestion

8
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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

9
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What is ingestion?

A

Taking in food

10
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What is taking in food called?

A

Ingestion

11
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What is propulsion?

A

Moving food through the digestive system

12
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What is moving food through the digestive system called?

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Propulsion

13
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What is absorption?

A

When chemicals are absorbed across the wall of the lumen

14
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What is it called when chemicals are absorbed across the wall of the lumen?

A

Absorption

15
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What is defection?

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The elimination of indigestible materials

16
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What is the elimination of indigestible materials called?

A

Defection

17
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What are the two main types of receptors in the GI tract?

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Mechanoreceptors and chemoreceptors

18
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What is the mesentery?

A

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

19
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What’s a double layer of peritoneum extending from the body wall?

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The mesentery

20
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What does the mesentery do?

A

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

21
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What connects to organs in the body cavity?

A

The mesentery

22
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What routes nerves/vessels/lymphatics?

A

The mesentery

23
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What is splanchnic circulation?

A

Arteries that serve digestive organs

24
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What are arteries that serve digestive organs a part of?

A

Splanchnic circulation

25
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What are the four tunics of the alimentary canal?

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Mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, serosa

26
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What are the Mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, & serosa a part of?

A

The tunics of the alimentary canal

27
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What does the mucosa do?

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It absorbs nutrients, protects against disease, and secretes mucus enzymes

28
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What tunic absorbs nutrients, protects against disease, and secretes mucus enzymes?

A

The mucosa

29
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What tunic is made up of simple columnar epithelial tissue?

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Mucosa

30
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What does the submucosa do?

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It contains blood, nervous tissue, and lymph and it supplies blood to the GI wall

31
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What contains blood, nervous tissue, and lymph and it supplies blood to the GI wall?

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The submucosa

32
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What does the muscularis do?

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It controls sphincters, peristalsis, and segmentation

33
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What controls sphincters, peristalsis, and segmentation?

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The muscularis

34
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What is the serosa?

A

The outer alimentary tunic

35
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What tunic is made up of connective loose tissue and some elastic?

A

The submucosa

36
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What is the submucosa made up of?

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Loose connective tissue and some elastic

37
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What is the muscularis made up of?

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Circular on the inner layer and longitudinal on the outer layer

38
Q

What tunic is made up of a circular inner layer and a longitudinal outer layer?

A

The muscularis

39
Q

What tunic is made up of visceral peritoneum and loose areolar with a simple squamous surface?

A

The serosa

40
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What makes up the serosa?

A

Visceral peritoneum and loose areolar with a simple squamous surface

41
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What is the enteric nervous system?

A

A semiautomatic part of the nervous system that’s controlled by the sympathetic and parasympathetic

42
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What is controlled by both the sympathetic and parasympathetic?

A

The enteric nervous system

43
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What regulates activity of glands and smooth muscle in the mucosa?

A

The enteric nervous system

44
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What does the enteric nervous system do?

A

It regulates activity of glands and smooth muscle in the muscosa

45
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What does saliva do?

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It dissolves food chemicals for tasting, moistens food to compact into balls, and contains chemical digestion enzymes

46
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How long is the esophagus?

A

25 cm

47
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What’s a special feature of the esophagus?

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It’s collapsed when inactive

48
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Where does the esophagus end?

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When it joins the stomach at the cardiac oriface/cardiac sphincter

49
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How big is the stomach?

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It’s 6-10 inches long and 50 ml when empty + 2 L when full

50
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What is a part of the stomach?

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Rugae

51
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What are the three regions of the stomach?

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Cardiac, fundus, and pyloric

52
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What are cardiac, fundus, and pyloric names for?

A

They’re the three regions of the stomach

53
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What does the stomach do?

A

It continues the work of the oral cavity by digesting food with enzymes and delivering chyme to the small intestine

54
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What delivers chyme to the small intestine?

A

The stomach

55
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How doesn’t the stomach digest itself?

A

The mucosal barrier

56
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What are the three phases of gastric secretion?

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Cephalic, gastric, and intestinal

57
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What do cephalic, gastric, and intestinal mean?

A

They’re the three phases of gastric secretion

58
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Describe the cephalic phase

A

It’s a conditioned reflex that’s triggered by thought and smell that happens before the food even enters the stomach

59
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Whats an example of a conditioned reflex?

A

The cephalic phase

60
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Describe the gastric phase

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It takes 3-4 hours and involves digestive juices

61
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Which phase is especially involved with digestive juices?

A

The gastric phase

62
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What happens during the intestinal phase?

A

A surge followed by “gastric breaks”

63
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How big is the small intestine?

A

2-4 meters long, 2.5-4 centimeters in diameter

64
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What is responsible for virtually all absorption?

A

The small intestine

65
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What are the three parts of the small intestine?

A

Duodenum, jejenum, and ilium

66
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What happens in the duodenum?

A

Accessory organs give their contents to the duodenum

67
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What holds all the parts of the small intestine in place?

A

The mesentery

68
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Where are circular folds, villi, and microvilli more prominent?

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In the proximal portion where absorption is greatest

69
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What do circular folds, villi, and microvilli do for the small intestine?

A

They increase surface area by 600 times

70
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Where are circular folds, villi, and microvilli located?

A

In the small intestine

71
Q

Where are goblet cells and peyers patches more prominent?

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In the distal portion of the small intestine

72
Q

What does the liver do?

A

It produces bile

73
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What does bile do?

A

It emulsifies fat

74
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What produces bile?

A

The liver

75
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What are the parts of the hepatic triad?

A

Hepatic artery branch, hepatic portal, vein branch, and bile duct

76
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What do acinar cells do?

A

They make 1200-1500 milliliters of pancreatic juice a day

77
Q

What makes pancreatic juice?

A

Acinar cells

78
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Which alimentary juice is slightly basic?

A

Pancreatic juice

79
Q

What is in pancreatic juice?

A

Water, enzymes, and electrolytes

80
Q

What part activates pancreatic juice?

A

The duodenum

81
Q

What does the pancreas do?

A

It makes pancreatic juice

82
Q

How big is the large intestine?

A

It’s 1.5 meters long and 7 centimeters in diameter

83
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What does the large intestine do?

A

It absorbs remaining water

84
Q

What are teniae coli?

A

3 bands of longitudinal muscle in the large intestine

85
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What are the 3 bands of longitudinal muscle in the large intestine called?

A

Teniae coli

86
Q

What are the haustra?

A

Pocket-like sacs in the large intestine

87
Q

What are the pocket-like sacs in the large intestine called?

A

Haustra

88
Q

What are epiploitic appendages?

A

Fatty visceral peritoneum hanging on the surface of the large intestine

89
Q

What are the features of the large intestine?

A

Teniae coli, haustra, epipiolic appendages, bacterial flora

90
Q

How many types of bacterial flora are there?

A

10 million

91
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What do bacterial flora do?

A

They metabolize host molecules, ferment indigestible carbs, synthesize B complex and vitamin K, and help the immune system

92
Q

What metabolizes host molecules and ferment indigestible carbs?

A

The bacterial flora

93
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What are the byproducts of bacterial flora?

A

Acid and up to 500 ml of gas a day

94
Q

What synthesizes B complex and vitamin K?

A

Bacterial flora

95
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What do bacterial flora synthesize?

A

B complex and vitamin K

96
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What part of the alimentary canal helps the immune system?

A

Bacterial flora in the large intestine