The Digestive System

Question 0

Col/o?

Answer 0

Colon

Question 1

Cholecyst/o?

Answer 1

Gallbladder

Question 2

Colon/o?

Answer 2

Colon

Question 3

Enter/o?

Answer 3

Intestine

Question 4

Gastr/o?

Answer 4

Stomach

Question 5

Hepat/o?

Answer 5

Liver

Question 6

Ile/o?

Answer 6

Ileum

Question 7

Jejun/o?

Answer 7

Jejunum

Question 8

Stomat/o?

Answer 8

Mouth

Question 9

What is the alimentary canal/gastrointestinal track?

Answer 9

Begins at the oral cavity and terminates at the anus.

Question 10

What is another name for the gastrointestinal tract?

Answer 10

GI track

Question 11

What are the three functions of the digestive system?

Answer 11

Digestion
Absorption
Elimination

Question 12

How long is the “food tube”?

Answer 12

30-32 feet

Question 13

What two sections is the GI tract divided into? What does each consist of?

Answer 13

Upper (oral cavity, esophagus, an stomach)

Lower (small and large intestines)

Question 14

What does digestion begin with?

Answer 14

In the mouth with mastication

Question 15

What is mastication?

Answer 15

Chewing

Question 16

What does saliva do?

Answer 16

Moistens the food and begins carbohydrate breakdown

Question 17

What is peristalsis?

Answer 17

Wave like contractions that help food move through the digestive system

Question 18

What are wave like contractions that help food move through the digestive system?

Answer 18

Peristalsis

Question 19

Where is the cardiac sphincter?

Answer 19

Top of the stomach

Question 20

What sphincter is a the bottom of the stomach?

Answer 20

Pyloric sphincter

Question 21

What are the three sections of the small intestines? How long are each of them?

Answer 21

Duodenum (10 inches)
Jejunum (8ft)
Ileum (12ft)

Question 22

What valve keeps food from back flowing into the ileum?

Answer 22

Ileocecal valve

Question 23

What is the ileocecal valve?

Answer 23

Keeps food from back flowing into the ileum.

Question 24

What does 90% of nutrient absorption take place?

Answer 24

Small intestine

Question 25

What does 10% of nutrient absorption take place?

Answer 25

Large intestine

Question 26

The last 7 inches of the colon is the ____ and ____?

Answer 26

Rectum and anus

Question 27

How long is the lower gastrointestinal tract?

Answer 27

5-6 feet

Question 28

What does bile do?

Answer 28

Help break down fat

Question 29

What does the gallbladder do?

Answer 29

Stores bile

Question 30

What does the pancreas do?

Answer 30

Secretes digestive enzymes and hormones

Question 31

The endocrine dumps ______________. Exocrine secretes ________. The pancreas does ______.

Answer 31

1) hormones into the blood 2) through ducts 3) both

Question 32

The pancreas does digestive trough _____ and insulin through the _______.

Answer 32

Ducts and blood stream

Question 33

What is stomatitis?

Answer 33

Inflammation of the mouth

Question 34

What is gingivitis?

Answer 34

Inflammation of the gums

Question 35

What is parotiditis?

Answer 35

Mumps, inflammation of the parotid gland that is characterized by a swelling of the gland, usually bilateral

Question 36

What are the three holes in the diaphragm?

Answer 36

Aorta Esophagus Inferior Vena Cava

Question 37

Wha are the openings in the diaphragm called?

Answer 37

Hiatus

Question 38

What is a hiatal hernia?

Answer 38

Stomach protrudes into the chest through one of the holes in the diaphragm

Question 39

What is intussusception?

Answer 39

Telescoping of a section of vowel inside an adjacent section

Question 40

What is volvulus?

Answer 40

A twisting of the bowel

Question 41

Cholelithiasis?

Answer 41

Disorder of the gallbladder

Question 42

Cholecystitis?

Answer 42

Inflammation of the gallbladder

Question 43

Hyperemesis?

Answer 43

Vomiting

Question 44

Hemorrhoids?

Answer 44

Vericose veins in the anus

Question 45

Dyspepsia?

Answer 45

Upset tummy

Question 46

What is GB?

Answer 46

Gallbladder

Question 47

What is GI?

Answer 47

Gastrointestinal

Question 48

What is NPO?

Answer 48

Nothing by mouth

Question 49

What is chyme?

Answer 49

Liquified food in the stomach

Question 50

What are the parts of the large intestine? In which order do the go?

Answer 50

Ascending colon goes up, hepatic flexure bends at the liver, transverse colon goes across, splenic flexure bends at the spleen, descending colon goes down, sigmoid colon is S shaped