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| Physical Digestion: Incisors specialize in cutting, Canines specialize in tearing, premolars specialize for grinding, and molars are designed for crushing |
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| Important in chewing and swallowing. |
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Physical Digestion: Saliva lubricates food to facilitate swallowing.
Chemical Digestion: Saliva contains Amylase enzymes, which break down starches. |
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Physical Digestion: Responsible for churning.
Chemical Digestion: Kills pathogens with stomach acids (HCl and Pepsin) |
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Produces bile salts and manufactures blood protein.
Removes toxic nitrogen
Stores glycogen to glucose
Detoxifies harmful compounds, such as alcohol, to less harmful products. |
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| Stores and concentrates bile which emulsifies fat. |
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| Secretes digestive enzymes into duodenum. |
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Stores Amino Acids, Glucose/Fructose, and Fatty Acids/Glycerole
Peristalsis moves food through. |
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Stores H2O
Empties contents into rectum |
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| Divides two pumps of the heart |
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| Receive blood returning to the heart |
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| Pump blood out of the heart |
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| Prevent blood from flowing backwards through the heart |
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| Prevent blood in arteries from flowing back into the ventricles |
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| Branch off of the aorta to bring oxygen and nutrients to the heart |
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| Carry blood away from the heart; always open. High pressure |
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| Carry blood to the heart; contain valves to prevent blood from flowing backwards. Low pressure. |
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| A single layer of cells that are the sites of fluid and gas exchange between blood and body cells. |
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| Component of blood that contains albumin (maintains osmotic pressure and blood), serum globulins (act as antibodies to prevent disease) and fibrinogens (required for blood clotting). |
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| Hemoglobin in these red blood cells carry oxygen. They contain carbonic anhydrase to facilitate the formation of carbonic acid from carbon dioxide and water. |
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| These white blood cells divide into granulocytes (contain cytoplasmic granules) and Agranulocytes. |
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| Component of blood produced in the bone marrow that is required for blood clotting. |
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| Blood reservoir, releases red blood cells when necessary |
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| Located behind sternum, front of chest cavity up to throat site of Thylumphocytes maturation |
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| A clear fluid which passes slowly but freely between the spaces between all cells and tissues. |
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| Glands which filter out and digest bacteria and other foreign materials picked up by the lymph |
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| This windpipe is lined with mucus-producing cells, which trap debris that may have escaped the filters in the nasal passage. |
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| Tiny hairlike protein structures found on some cells that sweep foreign debris from the respiratory tract. |
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| A structure that covers the glottis (opening of the trachea) during swallowing |
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| Sacs of the lung in which the exchange of gases between the atmosphere and the blood occurs |
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| A thin, fluid-filled membrane that surrounds the outer surface of the lungs and lines the inner wall of the chest cavity. |
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| Sheet of muscle that separates the organs of the chest cavity from those of the abdominal cavity. |
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