Stomach

Question 1

What are the four main regions to the stomach

Answer 1

The cardia, fundus, body and pyloric part

Question 2

Gastric gland is what type of gland

Answer 2

Exocrine

Question 3

The gastric glands contain three type of exocrine gland cells which are

Answer 3

Mucous cells, parietal cells and chief cells

Question 4

The stomach connects the esophagus to the

Answer 4

Duodenum the first part of the small intestine

Question 5

What does the mucous cell secrete

Answer 5

Mucus

Question 6

What does the parietal cell secrete

Answer 6

Intrinsic factor and hydrochloric acid

Question 7

What does chief cells secrete

Answer 7

Pepsinogen and gastric lipase

Question 8

The secretion of the three cells form

Answer 8

Gastric juice

Question 9

The gastric glands also include an endocrine cell which is

Answer 9

The G cell

Question 10

The G cell secretes the hormone

Answer 10

Gastrin

Question 11

What does Gastrin do

Answer 11

Stimulates several aspects of gastric activity

Question 12

Intrinsic factor is needed for absorption of what vitamin and how is it used

Answer 12

Vitamin B12 and it is used for erythropoiesis

Question 13

In mechanical digestion what is propulsion

Answer 13

The process within which the movement of gastric content from the body of the stomach down into the antrum.

Question 14

In mechanical digestion what is retropulsion

Answer 14

The process within which the gastric contents are forced back into the body of the stomach because they are too large to fit through the pyloric sphincter

Question 15

Chemical digestion of the stomach consists mostly of the conversion of proteins into peptides by

Answer 15

Pepsin

Question 16

After undergoing propulsion and retropulsion gastric contents are mixed with gastric juice and eventually becoming a soupy liquid called

Answer 16

Chyme