Digestive System Vocab
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1. Ingestion | show 🗑
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2. Digestion | show 🗑
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show | passage of a substance into or across a blood vessel or membrane
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4. Defecation/Elimination | show 🗑
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show | the act of chewing
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show | the muscular membranous tube for the passage of food from the pharynx to the stomach; the gullet
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7. Incisor | show 🗑
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8. Bicuspid | show 🗑
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show | a tooth with a broad crown used to grind food, located behind the premolars
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10. Canines | show 🗑
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show | the gums
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12. Dentin | show 🗑
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13. Pulp | show 🗑
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14. Crown | show 🗑
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15. Neck | show 🗑
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show | the embedded portion of a tooth
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show | the secretion of salivary glands ducted into the mouth
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show | a rounded mass of food prepared by the mouth for swallowing
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show | the muscular tube extending from the posterior of the nasal cavities to the esophagus
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20. Peristalsis | show 🗑
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show | the semifluid stomach contents consisting of partially digested food and gastric secretions
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show | a ring of smooth muscle fibers around the opening of the stomach into the duodenum
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show | an enzyme capable of digesting proteins in an acid pH
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show | a hormone that stimulates gastric secretion, especially hydrochloric acid release
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show | a parenchymal cell of the liver
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show | a greenish-yellow or brownish fluid produced in and secreted by the liver, stored in the gallbladder and released into the small intestine
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show | any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of fats into glycerol and fatty acids
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show | any of a group of enzymes that are present in saliva, pancreatic juice, and parts of plants and catalyze the hydrolysis of starch to sugar to produce carbohydrate derivatives
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show | the first part of the small intestine
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30. Jejunum | show 🗑
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show | the part of the large intestine between the caecum and the rectum
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show | the terminal part of the small intestine; between the jejunum and the cecum of the large intestine
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33. Villi | show 🗑
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show | of, relating to, or associated with the stomach
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show | the hypoglycemic hormone produced in the pancreas affecting carbohydrate and fat metabolism, blood glucose levels and other systemic processes
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36. Trypsin | show 🗑
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