Digestive organs
This organ mixes food with gastric juice and begins protein digestion.
What is the stomach
Steatorrhea is the presence of increased fat in feces. Which organ is least likely to be the cause of a patient's steatorrhea
What is the stomach
A patient experiences a drop in blood pressure due to dehydration. Which is. The physiological response would most likely occur
Vasodilation, increased heart rate
Tiny vessels where oxygen, nutrients, and wastes are exchanged with tissues.
What are capillaries?
The body maintaining blood sugar levels within a narrow range.
What is glucose homeostasis?
Most chemical digestion and nutrient absorption occurs in this organ.
What is the small intestine?
Fingerlike projections in the small intestine that increase surface area for absorption.
What are villi?
Insects circulate hemolymph through body cavities instead of closed vessels.
What is an open circulatory system?
Small vessels that collect blood from capillaries.
What are venules?
This hormone lowers blood glucose by promoting uptake of glucose by cells.
What is insulin?
The first section of the small intestine where pancreatic enzymes and bile enter.
What is the duodenum?
This mixture of hydrochloric acid, enzymes, and mucus helps digest food in the stomach
What is gastric juice?
Blood remains inside vessels and circulates through arteries, veins, and capillaries.
What is a closed circulatory system?
These vessels return blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
This hormone raises blood glucose by stimulating glycogen breakdown in the liver.
What is glucagon?
This structure absorbs water and compacts waste into feces.
What is the large intestine?
Microscopic projections on epithelial cells that further increase absorptive surface area.
What are microvilli?
These vessels carry blood away from the heart under high pressure.
What are arteries?
This chamber receives blood returning to the heart.
What is an atrium?
A disorder in which the body cannot properly regulate blood glucose due to insulin problems.
What is diabetes?
This portion of the large intestine absorbs water and salts from remaining food matter.
What is the colon?
Biological catalysts that speed up chemical digestion of macromolecules.
What are enzymes?
Small branches of arteries that regulate blood flow into capillaries.
Small branches of arteries that regulate blood flow into capillaries.
This chamber pumps blood out of the heart to the lungs or body.
What is a ventricle?
This substance emulsifies fats, breaking them into smaller droplets.
What is bile?