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Transporter for Digestion (Beginning)
Passes food from the mouth to the stomach. Enters stomach in a hole through in the diaphragm at T10. Opens only when eating or throwing up due to the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle. |
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Physical Digestion
The stomach is surrounded by parasympathetic (stimulant) and orthosympathetic (inhibitor) plexuses (networks of blood vessels and nerves in the anterior gastric, posterior, superior and inferior, celiac and myenteric) |
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Beginning of Chemical Digestion
Duodenum- digestive juices from the pancreas and the gall bladder mix. Digestive enzymes break down proteins and bile emulsifies fats into micelles
Jejunum- middle section
Ileum- contains villi, where all soluble molecules are absorbed into the blood |
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Finish of Digestion
Cecum- connects ileum with ascending colon, connected to the appendix
Taeniae coli – three bands of smooth muscle
Haustra – bulges caused by contraction of taeniae coli
Epiploic appendages – small fat accumulations on the viscera
Ascending Colon-
Right Colic Flexure- Hepatic
Transverse Colon
Left Colic Flexure- Splenic
Descending Colon
Sigmoid Colon- |
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| Detoxification, Protein Synthesis, and Produces Bile |
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| Helps carbs, protein and lipids.By endocrine gland producing several important hormones (insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin) and an exocrine gland, secreting pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes that pass to the small intestine. |
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| located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen. It removes old red blood cells and holds a reserve of blood in case of hemorrhagic shock while also recycling iron. Also metabolizes hemoglobin and degrades it into constitutive amino acids, and the heme portion is metabolized to bilirubin, which is shuttled to the liver for removal. |
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| Lines the abdominal cavity |
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| arises from parietal peritoneum and surrounds all other organs in the abdominal cavity. Attaches them to the posterior abdominal wall. |
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| exists between the visceral and parietal layer, lubricated by serous fluid. No organs are contained in here. |
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