Two main groups of digestive organs
- Accessory organs
Alimentary canal is also called _______, a continuous muscular tube that digests and absorbs food.
Gastrointestinal (GI) tract
______ of the GI tract include mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine, which terminates in anus.
Organs
_______ include teeth, tongue, gall bladder, and glands such as salivary glands, liver, and pancreas. Glands produce saliva, bile, and digestive enzymes.
Accessory digestive organs
Function of Digestive system
For convenience, the digestive system can be divided into _____ and ______.
Upper and lower tracts
The ________ includes the oral cavity (lips, teeth, palate, tongue, cheeks), pharynx, and esophagus.
Upper digestive tract
The ________ deals mostly with digestion, absorption, and excretion, and includes stomach, small and large intestines, and anal canal.
Lower tract
The oral cavity is the ______ the the digestive system. It is a ______ in which the food is mechanically fragmented by teeth, chemically modified by enzymes, and lubricated by saliva.
- Chamber
The oral cavity contains a narrow space between lips and teeth called ______. It is bounded by _____ and _____ palates above, back of _____ and _____ anteriorly, and ________ of cheeks laterally.
Four layers of the GI wall
Three types of oral mucosa
_______ forms inner lining of lips, cheeks, soft palate, floor of mouth, and undersurface of tongue. The specific tissue is _______.
- Nonkeratinized stratified squamous epithelium
_______ is found in gingivae (gums) and hard palate. The specific tissue is ________.
- Lightly keratinized stratified squamous epithelium
_____ is found on the dorsal surface of tongue. The specific tissue is _______.
- Nonkeratinized stratified squamous epithelium
Much of the oral cavity is occupied by _____, a highly mobile muscular structure.
Tongue
In humans, the tongue engages in _____, ______, ______, and ______.
The epithelium of the tongue is ________.
Smooth nonkeratinized stratified squamous
The tongue consists of ______ oriented vertically, horizontally and longitudinally and intersecting at right angles providing _________.
- High degree of mobility
The tongue has a V-shaped groove called ______ between the anterior (oral) 2/3rd and the posterior (pharyngeal) 1/3rd.
Sulcus terminalis
The three main types of surface projections called _______ that are seen on the roughened _____ surface of the ________ of the tongue are ______, ______, and ______.
_______ are the most numerous, slender and conical projections, have heavily keratinized cells. The grey color is due to keratin.
Filiform
_______ have narrow base, widely scattered among filiform papillae and have connective tissue core.
Fungiform
_______ is one row of 8-12 on the posterior side of tongue, largest in size, epithelium nonkeratinized or incompletely keratinized, with _________.
- Serous glands of von Ebner