Digestive System Vocabulary
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| show | Absorption
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| The digestive tract from mouth to anus. | show 🗑
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| an enzyme secreted by the salivary glands that breaks down starch which begins the chemical digestion of food. | show 🗑
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| Ground up food is mixed with this by the tongue and digestion begins | show 🗑
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| functions to emulsify fats which means fats are broken into smaller droplets to make easier for enzymes to digest them | show 🗑
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| show | body
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| show | carbohydrase
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| first part of the stomach where the esophagus deposits food | show 🗑
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| this is the phase where the sights, smell, taste, and thought of food triggers the release of gastric secretions. These sensations stimulate the central nervous system, which causes the secretions. This prepares the stomach to receive food | show 🗑
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| stiimulates production of pancreatic enzymes, the contraction of the gallbladder, and inhibits gastric secretion | show 🗑
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| partially digested food from the stomach | show 🗑
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| show | cystic
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| removal of undigested waste products by compacting and discharging the waste as feces | show 🗑
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| show | epiglottis
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| show | esophagus
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| indigestible material to be eliminated | show 🗑
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| show | gallbladder
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| show | gastric inhibitory peptide
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| show | gastric phase
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| stimulates the production of acids and enzymes | show 🗑
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| show | hepatic
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| show | hepatocyte
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| this phase controls the rate at which the stomach will empty food | show 🗑
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| show | Islets of Langerhans
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| breaks down fats (lipids) | show 🗑
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| produces bile | show 🗑
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| to break down nucleic acids into nucleotides, etc. ex. Pancreatic lipase | show 🗑
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| show | pancreas
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| the process through which indigested food are propelled through the digestive tract | show 🗑
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| to break down proteins into amino acids ex. Trypsin, Chymotrypsin, and carboxypeptidase | show 🗑
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| show | pylorus
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| secrete the digestive enzyme, amylase, which begins the breakdown or digestion of start | show 🗑
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| stimulates the production of alkaline buffers, inhibits gastric secretions, and increases bile secretion | show 🗑
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| show | segmentation
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