Digestive Organs
This organ begins mechanical digestion by chewing food.
What is the mouth?
The process of breaking food into smaller pieces by chewing.
What is mechanical digestion?
This organ produces bile.
What is the liver?
These nutrients are the body's primary energy source.
What are carbohydrates?
A common condition caused by stomach acid flowing back into the esophagus.
What is GERD (acid reflux)?
This tube carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
The process of breaking food down using enzymes and chemicals.
What is chemical digestion?
This organ stores bile.
What is the gallbladder?
These nutrients are broken down into amino acids.
What are proteins?
Inflammation of the stomach lining.
What is gastritis?
This organ churns food and mixes it with acid.
What is the stomach?
Muscular waves that move food through the digestive tract.
What is peristalsis?
This gland produces digestive enzymes and insulin.
What is the pancreas?
Salivary amylase begins digestion of this nutrient.
What are carbohydrates?
A painful sore in the stomach or duodenum.
What is an ulcer?
Most nutrient absorption occurs in this organ.
What is the small intestine?
Fingerlike projections in the small intestine that absorb nutrients.
What are villi?
Bile helps digest this nutrient.
What are fats (lipids)?
Lipase is the enzyme that digests these molecules.
What are fats?
Inflammation of the appendix.
What is appendicitis?
This organ absorbs water and forms feces.
What is the large intestine?
The movement of digested nutrients into the bloodstream.
What is absorption?
The liver helps remove toxins from the blood and produces this digestive fluid.
What is bile?
The final product of carbohydrate digestion is this simple sugar.
What is glucose?
A disease in which the body cannot properly regulate blood glucose.
What is diabetes mellitus?