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Carleen Pandy

Physiology 7-13

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Ingestion Process of taking food into the mouth, starting it on its journey though the digestive tract.
Digestion A group of processes that break complex nutrients into simpler ones, thus facilitating their absorption; mechanical digestion physically breaks large chunks into small bits; chemical digestion breaks molecules apart.
Motility Movement by the muscular components of the digestive tube, including processes of mechanical digestion; examples include peristalsis and segmentation.
Secretion Release of digestive juices (containing enzymes, acids, bases, mucus, bil, or other products that facilitate digestion); some digestive organs also secret endocrine hormones that regulate digestion or metabolism of nutrients.
Gonadocorticoids Refers to sex hormones that are released from the zone fasciculate and zone reticular of the adrenal cortex rather than the gonads.
Glucagon Produced by the alpha cells, tends to increase blood glucose levels by stimulating the conversion of glycogen to glucose in liver cells.
Insulin Produced by beta cells, tends to promote the movement of glucos, amino acids, and fatty acids out of the blood and into tissue.
Artery Is a vessel that carries blood away from the heart.
Capillaries Are the microscopic vessels that carry blood from arterioles to venues.
Vein Is a vessel that carries blood toward the heart.
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