The breakdown of food molecules into their individual components.
What is digestion?
The act of swallowing.
What is deglutition?
The part of the intestines where most of the absorption takes place.
What is the small intestine?
The functions of the gall bladder.
What are storing and concentrating bile?
Macronutrients. (name them)
What are carbohydrates, fats and proteins? (your body needs these in large amounts)
The 2 parts of the digestive system.
What are the alimentary canal and the accessory organs.
The 3 stages of swallowing.
What are the voluntary oral stage, pharyngeal stage and esophageal stage?
The function of intestinal villi.
What is to increase surface area and increase absorption?
Carries nutrient rich blood from the stomach, and intestines to the liver.
What is the hepatic vein?
Micronutrients. (general categories)
The accessory organs.
What are the liver, gall bladder and pancreas?
The 3 mechanical actions that happen when you swallow to protect the airway.
What are the soft palate rises, the epiglottis closes off the trachea and the laryns rises?
The 3 main functions of the stomach.
What are storage, secreting and mixing?
Th cells in the liver that remove old red and white blood cells.
What are phagocytic cells?
Essential amino acids.
What are the 9 proteins that the body cannot make? (You must eat proteins that contain them)
The mixture of food in the stomach.
What is chyme?
The 3 types of salivary glands.
What are parotid, sublingual and submandicular?
The 3 functions of the hormone gastrin.
What are increasing the lower esophageal sphincter tone, decreasing the pyloric sphincter tone and increasing the production of stomach acid.
An accessory organ that secretes enzymes which break down proteins, fats and sugars.
What is the pancreas?
Fat soluble vitamins.
What are A, D, E and K?
A delicate layer of beneficial microbes, mucus and immune system molecules.
What are biofilms?
The components of saliva that tears do not have.
What are mucus and amylase?
Four substances the stomach glands secrete.
What are (hydrochloric) acid, mucus, pepsinogen and intrinsic factor?
The 4 functions of the liver.
What are the production of bile, processes nutrients, synthesis (manufacturing chemicals), phagocytosis, detoxifying.
Bulk minerals.
What are calcium, magnesium and phosphorous?