Basic Digestive System Functions and Processes, but specifically about absorption.
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Alimentary Canal from deep to superficial
mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, and serosa
What happens in the oral cavity?
food is ingested
and broken down mechanically through chewing by the teeth and manipulated by the tongue.
Bolus is also formed to help this process
When food enters the mouth what catabolizes carbohydrates?
Salivary amylase
As food travels down what region of the stomach does it first enter
Cardia
Secretions of the stomach, specefically gastric cells.
What cells release what
?
Not a main role of the stomach?
Absorption
Stomach performs 3 primary functions, but one thing it isn’t really responsible for.
Absorption
What hormone increases acid secretion in the stomach?
ghrelin and acetylcholine
Where does the chyme go after leaving the stomach?
Duodenum
What prevents bacteria and materials in the large intestine from flowing backward into the ileum of the small intestine?
ileocecal valve
Different structures of the colon
ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid sections, along with unique features like the teniae coli (longitudinal muscle bands), haustra (sacculations), and epiploic appendages
Rectum and defecation. What is under voluntary control?
Defecation is under voluntary control
What would happen if you had an inadequate amount of stomach acid? How would that affect your digestion?
Malabsorption/Poor digestion
Pancreas has exocrine secretions by acinar cells. What do those secrete?
Pancreatic Juice
Myenteric Plexus
a nerve network in the walls of the esophagus, stomach, and intestines that controls gut motility, or movement, like peristalsis
Round ligament and falciform and what they separate
Falciform separates the left and right lobe of the liver
What part of the Esophagus is composed of smooth muscle only?
The lower third
Which of the following is not a structure designed to increase surface area of small intestine? But what are meant to increase the surface area?
Circular folds, villi, and micro villi
Which organ functions to absorb significant quantities of water, electrolytes, and vitamins?
Large intestine
Define metabolism
The sum of the bodies chemical reaction
The breakdown of carbohydrates into glucose is what?
Catabolism
Substances that lose electrons are what?
Reducing agent
Electron transfer reactions are termed oxidation what reactions?
Oxidation-reduction reactions