Organ Functions
What organ stores bile?
Gallbladder
What stage of digestion is for food actually entering the stomach?
Gastric
This hormone acts on the pancreas to stimulate pancreatic juice, lower pH and increase bile release
Secretin
Salivary amylase functions to breakdown what?
carbs (pancreatic amylase completes the process)
What is the longest section of the small intestine?
Which organ is responsible for reabsorbing water and compacting feces?
Large Intestine (or Colon)
What stage of digestion is for chyme entering the duodenum?
Intestinal
This hormone slows down peristalsis and increase insulin secretion from pancreas.
Gastric Inhibitory Peptide (GIP)
The pancreatic enzyme that breaks down proteins
protease
The structure where the bile duct and pancreatic duct meet at the duodenum.
hepatopancreatic ampulla
Regulating the composition of blood/destroying old RBCs is a job of what organ?
What stage of digestion is for the stomach to produce gastric juices in preparation for food?
cephalic
This hormone promotes stomach motility.
Gastrin
The pancreatic enzyme that breaks down fats
lipase
The sphincter at the end of the stomach which controls emptying to the next portion of the alimentary tract.
Pyloric sphincter (or valve)
The movement that occurs within the stomach and intestine to help push contents forward
peristalsis
Which part of the small intestine is the area for the majority of chemical digestion and nutrient absorption?
Jejunum
This hormone causes both an increase in pancreatic juice, and slows the rate of stomach emptying into small intestine
Cholecystokinin (CCK)
The pancreatic enzyme that breaks down DNA and RNA
nuclease
Ileocecal valve
What specialized stomach cell secretes HCl to breakdown meat and fibrous plants?
parietal
Bile helps in the digestion of what?
Lipids
The breaking apart of complex molecules into more simple molecules, by the addition of H2O
Hydrolysis
This section of colon travels from the hepatic flexure to the splenic flexure.