Great for health classes and medical students, these flash cards cover the terms and functions for the digestive system
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| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| What 5 parts of our body does the Alimentary canal (gastrointestinal tract) contain? | mouth, esophagus, stomach, small & large intestine |
| What does the Alimentary canal do for our body? | Digests & absorbs food |
| What 6 organs are the Accessory Organs of the Digestive System? | teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gall bladder, pancreas |
| The Digestive Process Ingestion means what? | eating |
| The Digestive Process that moves food through the Alimentary Canal? | Propulsion |
| During Propulsion, what is voluntary control and where do we do this at? | Swallowing; pharynx |
| During Propulsion what's involuntary alternating contractions and relaxations of smooth muscle from the esophagus down? | Peristalsis |
| The Digestive Process that's chewing in mouth, churning in stomach, & segmentation in intestines? | Mechanical Digestion |
| This is a "disassembly" line where nutrients become more available to the body in each step | GI Tract |
| The Digestive Process that's the enzymatic break down of food | Chemical Digestion |
| The Digestive Process that moves through mucosa into blood and lymph vessels | Absorption of digested end products |
| The Digestive Process that is the elimination of indigestible substances (feces) | Defecation |
| In the Control of Digestion what 2 things initiate reflexes that activate glands or smooth muscle? | Mechanoreceptors from stretching and chemoreceptors from substances |
| In the Control of Digestion Mechanical & Chemical Stimuli also control what? | stretch receptors, osmolarity, & the presence of subtrate in the lumen |
| During the Control of Digestion, what Neural part is controlled by local centers "in house reflexes" | intrinsic |
| In the Control of Digestion, what Neural part is controlled by CNS and ANS reflexes? | Extrinsic |
| What's the Hormonal Control of Digestion? | intrinsically produced for "in house" result |
| This works from the esophagus to the anal canal | Alimentary Canal |
| What are the 4 tunics of the Alimentary Canal (GI tract)? | Mucosa, Submucosa, Muscularis externa, serosa |
| This is the moist mucus-covered inner layer of the Alimentary Canal; what does it line? | Mucosa; lines the alimentary canal lumen |
| What epithelium in the Mucosa of the Alimentary Canal is below the esophagus? | Simple columnar Epithelium |
| What does the epithelium of the Mucosa in the Alimentary Canal contain? | enzyme-secreting and hormone-secreting cells |
| In the Mucosa of the Alimentary Canal, what's the areolar connective tissue? | Lamina Propria |
| What does the Lamina Propria do in the Mucosa of the Alimentary Canal? | it's capillaries absorb digested nutrients |
| What does the Lamina Propria in the Mucosa of the Alimentary Canal contain? | mucosa associated lymphatic tissue |
| In the Mucosa of the Alimentary canal, this thin smooth muscle causes folding of mucosa in increase surface area. | Muscularis Mucosae |
| In the Alimentary Canal, this has areolar connective tissue with glands, blood vessels, lymph follicles and nerve plexus | Submucosa |
| In the Alimentary Canal, this is smooth muscle of inner circular and outer longitudinally layers responsible for peristalsis and segmentation | Muscularis Externa |
| In the Alimentary canal, what has visceral peritoneum of simple squamous epithelium | Serosa |
| What is the serous membrane of the abdominal cavity? | Peritoneum |
| The 3 things that control digestion initiate reflexes that do what? | Activate or inhibit digestive glands & mix lumen contents & move them along |
| what is the serous membrane covering the surface of the Digestive organs? | Visceral peritoneum |
| What is the serous membrane lining the inner wall of the abdominopelvic cavity? | Parietal Peritoneum |
| What's the cavity between the Visceral & Parietal peritoneum? | Peritoneal cavity |
| What does the Parietal Cavity contain? | serous fluid for lubrication |
| What is the peritoneum connecting the Digestive organs called? | Mesentery |
