Module 7 Flashcards
(35 cards)
Feces
Poop inside rectum
Name 3 parts of the small intestine
Duodenum,jejunum,ileum
Stool
Poop outside the rectum
Defacation
The act of pooping
Liver
Filters the toxins from the blood stream
Gall bladder
Stores bile until needed to digest food
Appendix
Does nothing
Pancreas
Produces insulin
What is ingestion?
The act of taking in food
What is digestion
When food is broken down by the body
What is absorption?
The body takes in what we ate
What is excretion?
Getting rid of waste
Mouth
Oral cavity, digestion begins, chew to start breakdown, saliva
Tongue
Pushes food to the back of the mouth to the Pharnyx (throat)
Esophagus
Tube which leads to the stomach, muscular. Peristalsis begins
Stomach
Breaks down the food using gastric fluid. Kills germs but not Ecoli
Chyme
The semi fluid mass that food has not broken down into by gastric secretions and passes from the stomach into the sm intestine.
Rectum
Storage for poop
Food and water
Basic needs for life
Nutrition
Involves ingestion, digestion and absorption of fluids and foods
Nutrients
Something good for your body-food, supplements, sun(vitD), IV, IM (inter muscular), tube feeds
Calorie
Unit of measurement, energy produced by the body, burns food
Protein
Builds muscle, grows tissue, needed for healing,
Hgb
Binds oxygen in blood