Immune System
This type of cells is the garbage disposal of the body. It eats everything from bacteria to cell debris.
What is the Macrophage?
This is the type of digestion that occurs in the mouth and stomach but not the small or large intestine.
What is mechanical digestion?
This specific type of cell transmits information to the muscles and organs, telling them how and when to move.
What are motor neurons?
This organ makes up 2/3 of the digestive system.
What is the small intestine?
These cells wear the proteins of slain bacteria and viruses on their outer membrane and activate the adaptive immune system.
What are dendritic cells or antigen presenting cells.
This is the scientific term that we commonly refer to as chewing.
What is mastication?
This type of matter is found primarily in the brain, is involved in voluntary action, and has no meylin sheath around it.
What is grey matter?
This is the organ that produces bile.
What is the liver?
This center or bulb is where all the nerves in your nose come together before they travel to the brain.
What is the olfactory bulb?
What are hematopoietic stem cells?
This enzyme breaks down lipids.
What is lipase?
This region of the brain helps us with moment and coordination and is associated with touch, temperature perception, and pain perception.
What is the parietal lobe?
Enzymes and bile meet up with this chemical in the small intestine.
What is Chyme.
This structure is found in the ear and is responsible for balance.
What are the semicircular canals?
Plasma cells come from this type of white blood cell.
What are B cells?
What is the large intestine?
This part of the brain is associated with fear and disgust and is why taking a test you are stressed about is so hard.
What is the amygdala?
What are Rugae?
The body requires this ion to be present in in the actin order to allow for muscle contraction to occur.
What are calcium ions?
During antigen presentation the MHC stands for this.
Major histocompatibility complex.
These chemicals are absorbed by the blood stream from the small intestine to be reused by the liver.
What are bile salts?
This structure seperates the left and right brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
This structure is the final section of the small intestine, responsible for absorbing vitamin B12 and any remaining nutrients not absorbed yet.
What is the ileum?
The involuntary contraction of muscle in the esophagus that helps move food toward the stomach.
What is peristalsis?