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The Digestive System
Anatomy 2
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 2
10/24/2007

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Alimentary Canal
Definition
The GI tract is also known as...
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Propulsion
Definition
Moves food thru the GI tract via both swallowing and peristalsis?
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Five Accessory digestive organs...
Definition
  1. Teeth
  2. Salivary Glands
  3. Gallbladder
  4. Liver
  5. Pancreas

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Pharnyx
Definition
The common passageway for food, fluids and air.
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Cafe Coronary
Definition
Can result from food aspiration into the trachea
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Mastication
Definition
Chewing
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Gastrin Cells
Definition
produces HCL (gastric acid)
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Vital for the absorption of vitamin B12
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Instrinsic Factor

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Pernicious Anemia

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Caused by lack of B12
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Name the parts of the small intestine...
Definition
  1. Duodenum
  2. Jejunem
  3. Ileum
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67% of colorectal cancer occurs in...
Definition
sigmoid colon and distal-descending colon
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Hematochezia

Definition
Rectal Bleeding
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Hematemesis

Definition
vomiting blood
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Largest glad in the body
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Liver
Term
Hepatocytes
Definition
Liver Cells, which produce bile
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Gallbladder's function
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stores bile
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Pancrease function

Definition

Production of

  1. gastric enzymes
  2. glucagon
  3. insulin
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Islets of Langerhans
Definition
where insulin is produced
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What is the function of the liver?
Definition
To produce bile, which emulsifies fat.
Term
Type 1 Diabetes
Definition
requires exofenous insulin
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Type 2 is treated with
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oral hypoglycemic medicines, diet, exercise, and wieght loss
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Propulsion
Definition
Movement of ood thru the amimentary tract
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Anabolism
Definition
syntesizing... building up
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Catabolism
Definition
Breaking down
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Mesentery
Definition
double layer of peritoneum extending to the digestive organs from the body wall
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Visceral Peritoneum
Definition
aka serosa...covers the external surfaces of most of the digestive organs
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Parietal Peritoneum
Definition

lines the body wall of teh abdominopelvic cavity

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Deglutination
Definition
swallowing... follows mastication
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Fundus, Cardiac Region and pyloric region
Definition
parts of the stomach
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Three phases of gastric secretion

Definition
  1. cephalic
  2. gastric
  3. intestinal

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Three sections of the small intestine
Definition
  1. duodenum
  2. jejunem
  3. ileum
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Liver and Gallbladder are accesory organs, in association with...
Definition
GI organs
Term
Cholecystokinin
Definition
hormone that causes the GB to contract and release bile into the small intestine
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Pepsin
Definition
produced by the stomach's chief cells, is th einal product of pepsinogen
Term
Sole source for final lipid digestion
Definition
Small Intestines
Term
Trypsin and chymotrypsin
Definition
pancreatic enzymes which breakdown protiens in the small intestines
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Secretin
Definition
a duodenal hormone stinumlated by acidic chyme, fats, sone protiens which slows the stomach's motility
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Which organ is retroperitoneal
Definition
Pancreas
Term
Name the five parts of the colon...
Definition
  1. anus
  2. rectum
  3. colon
  4. appendix
  5. cecum
Term

Primary function of the colon

Definition
to remove water from the feces.
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Lipases
Definition
fat digesting enzymes
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Peptic ulcers
Definition
aka duodenal and gastric ulcers
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All gallstones are composed of
Definition
cholesterol
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Defecation reflex is involuntary, caused by
Definition
distention of the GI walls, mediated by CNS, and usually occurs within 30 mins post-prandial
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Role of appendix
Definition

storage of lymphocytes

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