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| PASSAGE OF MATERIAL THROUGH THE WALLS OF THE SMALL INTESTINE INTO THE BLOODSTREAM. |
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| SMALL BUILDING BLOCKS OF PROTEINS (LIKE LINKS IN A CHAIN), RELEASED WHEN PROTEINS ARE DIGESTED. |
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| ENZYME SECRETED BY THE PANCREAS TO DIGEST STARCH. |
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| TERMINAL END OR OPENING OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY. |
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| BLIND POUCH HANGING FROM THE CECUM (IN THE RIGHT LOWER QUADRANT [RLQ]). |
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| DIGESTIVE JUICE MADE IN THE LIVER AND STORED IN THE GALLBLADDER. IT BREAKS UP (EMULSIFIES) LARGE FAT GLOBULES. |
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| PIGMENT RELEASED BY THE LIVER IN BILE. |
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| POINTED, DOG-LIKE TEETH NEXT TO THE INCISORS. ALSO CALLED CUSPIDS OR EYETEETH. |
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| FIRST PART OF THE LARGE INTESTINE. |
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| LARGE INTESTINE, CONSISTING OF THE CECUM, THE ASCENDING, TRNASVERSE, AND DESCENDING SEGMENTS, AND THE RECTUM. |
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| CARRIES BILE FROM THE LIVER AND GALLBLADDER TO THE DUODENUM. ALSO CALLED THE CHOLEDOCHUS. |
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| ELIMINATION OF FECES FROM THE DIGESTIVE TRACT THROUGH THE ANUS. |
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| THE PRIMARY MATERIAL FOUND IN TEETH. IT IS COVERED BY THE ENAMEL IN THE CROWN AND A PROTECTIVE LAYER OF CEMENTUM IN THE ROOT. |
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| BREAKDOWN OF COMPLEX FOODS TO SIMPLER FORMS. |
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| FIRST PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE. IT MEASURES 12 INCHES LONG. |
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| ACT OF REMOVAL OF MATERIALS FROM THE BODY; IN THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM, THE REMOVAL OF INDIGESTIBLE MATERIAL AS FECES. |
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| PHYSICAL PROCESS OF BREAKING UP LARGE FAT GLOBULES INTO SMALLER GLOBULES, THEREBY INCREASING THE SURFACE AREA THAT ENZYMES CAN USE TO DIGEST THE FAT. |
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| HARD, OUTERMOST LAYER OF A TOOTH. |
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| A CHEMICAL THAT SPEEDS UP A REACTION BETWEEN SUBSTANCES. THEY BREAK DOWN COMPLEX FOODS TO SIMPLER SUBSTANCES. THEY ARE GIVEN NAMES THAT END IN -ASE. |
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| TUBE CONNECTING THE THROAT TO THE STOMACH. ESO- MEANS INWARD; PHAG/0 MEANS SWALLOWING. |
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| SUBSTANCES PRODUCED WHEN FATS ARE DIGESTED. |
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| SMALL SAC UNDER THE LIVER; STORES BILE. |
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| STARCH; GLUCOSE IS STORED IN THE FORM OF THIS IN LIVER CELLS. |
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| SUBSTANCE PRODUCED BY THE STOMACH; NECESSARY FOR DIGESTION OF FOOD. |
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| THIRD PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE. FROM THE GREEK WORD EILOS, MEANING TWISTED. |
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| ON OF FOUR FRONT TEETH IN THE DENTAL ARCH |
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| HORMONE PRODUCED BY THE ENDOCRINE CELLS OF THE PANCREAS. IT TRANSPORTS SUGAR FROM THE BODY INTO CELLS AND STIMULATES GLYCOGEN FORMATION BY THE LIVER. |
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| SECOND PART OF THE SMALL INTESTINE. THIS PART OF THE INTESTINE WAS ALWAYS EMPTY WHEN A BODY WAS EXAMINED AFTER DEATH. |
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| PACREATIC ENZYME NECESSARY TO DIGEST FATS. |
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| A LARGE ORGAN LOCATED IN THE RUQ OF THE ABDOMEN. IT SECRETES BILE; STORES SUGAR, IRON, AND VITAMINS; PRODUCES BLOOD PROTEINS; AND DESTROYS WORN-OUT RED BLOOD CELLS. NORMAL ONE WEIGHS ABOUT 2 1/2 TO 3 POUNDS. |
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LOWER ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER
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| RING OF MUSCLES BETWEEN THE ESOPHAGUS AND THE STOMACH. ALSO CALLED CARDIAC SPHINCTER. |
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| THE SIXTH, SEVENTH, AND EIGHTH TEETH FROM THE MIDDLE ON EITHER SIDE OF THE DENTAL ARCH. |
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| ORHAN UNDER THE STOMACH; PRODUCES INSULIN (FOR TRANSPORT OF SUGAR INTO CELLS) AND ENZYMES (FOR DIGESTION OF FOOD). |
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PAPILLAE
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| SMALL ELEVATIONS ON THE TONGUE. IT IS A NIPPLE-LIKE ELEVATION. |
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| SALIVAR GLAND WITHIN THE CHEEK, JUST ANTERIROR TO THE EAR. |
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| RHYTHMIC CONTRACTIONS OF THE TUBULAR ORGANS. IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT, THIS MOVES THE CONTENTS THROUGH AT DIFFERENT RATES: STOMACH, 0.5 TO 2 HOURS; SMALL INTESTINE, 2 TO 6 HOURS; AND COLON, 6 TO 72 HOURS. |
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| THROAT, THE COMMON PASSAGEWAY FOR FOOD FROM THE MOUTH AND FOR AIR FROM THE NOSE. |
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| LARGE VEIN BRINGING BLOOD TO THE LIVER FROM THE INTESTINES. |
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| ENZYME THAT DIGESTS PROTIEN. |
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| SOFT TISSUE WITHIN A TOOTH, CONTAINING NERVES AND BLOOD VESSELS. |
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| RING OF MUSCLE AT THE END OF THE STOMACH, NEAR THE DUODENUM. IT IS NORMALLY CLOSED, BUT OPENS WHEN A WAVE OF PERISTALSIS PASSES OVER IT. |
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| DISTAL REGION OF THE STOMACH, OPENING TO THE DUODENUM. |
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| LAST SECTION OF THE LARGE INTESTINE, CONNECTING THE END OF THE COLON AND ANUS. |
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| RIDGES ON THE HARD PALATE AND THE WALL OF THE STOMACH. |
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| DIGESTIVE JUICE PRODUCED BY THE SILIVARY GLANDS. |
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| PAROTID, SUBLINGUAL, AND SUBMANDIBULAR GLANDS. |
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| FOURTH AND LAST S-SHAPED SEGMENT OF THE COLON, JUST BEFORE THE RECTUM; EMPTIES IN THE RECTUM. |
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| CIRCULAR RING OF MUSCLE THAT CONSTRICTS A PASSAGE OR CLOSES A NATURAL OPENING. |
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| MUSCULAR ORGAN THAT RECEIVES FOOD FROM THE ESOPHAGUS. THE PARTS ARE THE FUNDUS (PROXIMAL SECTION), BODY (MIDDLE SECTION), AND ANTRUM (DISTAL SECTION). |
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| FAT MOLECULES COMPOSED OF THREE PARTS FATTY ACIDS AND ONE PART GLYCEROL. |
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| SOFT TISSUE HANGING FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE SOFT PALATE. |
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| MICROSCOPIC PROJECTIONS IN THE WALL OF THE SMALL INTESTINE THAT ABSORB NUTRIENTS INTO THE BLOODSTREAM. |
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