Digest This!
This muscular tube carries food from the mouth to the stomach using a wave-like motion.
What is the esophagus?
Most nutrient absorption happens in this long, folded organ.
What is the small intestine?
This organ produces bile to help break down fats.
What is the liver?
This is the outermost layer of skin.
What is the epidermis?
The body's largest organ.
What is the skin?
This response causes redness, swelling, heat, and pain after injury or infection.
What is inflammation?
What is dead?
This structure prevents food from entering the lungs by covering the trachea when you swallow.
What is the epiglottis?
Tiny fingerlike projections in the small intestine that increase the digestive surface are called these.
What are villi?
This small organ stores and releases bile.
What is the gallbladder?
This skin layer contains blood vessels, nerves, and sweat glands.
What is the dermis?
These rays penetrate deeper into the skin and are linked to aging and wrinkles.
What are UVA rays?
These proteins specifically recognize and bind to antigens.
What are antibodies?
This is an inappropriate immune response by the body to a normally harmless invader.
What is an allergy?
This process physically breaks food into smaller pieces through chewing and churning.
What is mechanical digestion?
This is the main function of the large intestine.
What is absorbing water?
This organ produces digestive enzymes and insulin.
What is the pancreas?
This deeper layer of fat and connective tissue helps insulate the body.
What is the hypodermis?
These rays are most associated with sunburn and direct DNA damage.
What are UVB rays?
Diseases in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues are called these.
What are autoimmune diseases?
This substance helps build strong bones, boosts the immune system, and fights heart disease. We can get it in two ways— from the foods we eat or through sunlight
What is Vitamin D?
This type of digestion uses enzymes and acids to chemically change food molecules.
What is chemical digestion?
Increasing this allows the small intestine to absorb more nutrients.
What is surface area?
This substance helps emulsify fats during digestion.
What is bile?
We all have roughly the same amount of these cells- which produce the pigment that gives skin its color.
What are melanocytes?
These immune cells in the skin help detect invading pathogens.
What are Langerhans cells?
This condition occurs when the body cannot properly regulate blood glucose because of insulin problems.
What is diabetes?
The community of trillions of microorganisms that live in and on the human body plays a crucial role in maintaining immunity, digesting food, and preventing disease
What is a microbiome?
The wave-like muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract are called this.
What is peristalsis?
This organ filters blood, detoxifies chemicals, and processes nutrients.
What is the liver?
This hormone lowers blood glucose levels by helping cells absorb sugar.
What is insulin?
These cells make up most of the epidermis and produce keratin.
What are keratinocytes?
What are physical sunscreen and chemical sunscreen?
These are released during allergic reactions cause symptoms such as swelling, itching, or sneezing?
What are histamines?
The name for an extreme allergic reaction causing restriction of the airways.
What is Anaphylaxis?
This organ contains hydrochloric acid and churns food into chyme.
What is the stomach?
In this type of specific inherited disease, the body stops producing insulin altogether.
What is Type 1 diabetes?
This peptide hormone signals to the liver to release stored glucose into the bloodstream.
What is glucagon?
These specialized skin cells help detect light touch sensations.
What are Merkel cells?
Sunscreen does not protect against both UVA and UVB rays unless it is labeled as this.
What is broad spectrum?
This type of white blood cell helps coordinate immune responses and destroy infected cells.
What are T cells?
These microscopic oil glands in the skin that secrete a fatty, waxy substance called sebum are primarily responsible for acne.
What are Sebaceous glands?