Small Intestine
This is ejected by the stomach to the small intestine.
What is chyme?
First part of the large intestine.
What is the cecum?
Chewing food
What is mechanical digestion?
This organ controls blood coagulation.
What is the liver?
This provides fiber and bulk to the stool.
What is cellulose?
Three parts to the small intestine.
What is the duodenum, jejunum and ileum?
The expulsion of feces.
What is defecation?
What is peristalsis?
This vein drains blood from all of the organs of digestion and brings blood rich in digestive end-products to the liver.
What is the portal vein?
The process where bile can split the large fat globule into thousands of tiny fat globules.
What is emulsification?
Most digestion occurs in these areas.
What is the duodenum and the first third of the jejunum?
Hepatic flexure involves these
What is the Ascending and Transverse colon?
The pylorus is part of this organ.
What is the stomach?
These two things are located between the common bile duct and the duodenum.
What are the Ampulla of Vater and Sphincter of Oddi?
Powerful proteolytic enzyme.
What is trypsin?
This hormone found in the duodenum stimulates the gallbladder to contract and release bile.
What is Cholecystokinin or CCK?
Another name for gut normal flora.
What is microbiota?
The glands infected by the mumps virus, resulting in chipmunk-like appearance.
What are the parotid glands?
This carries bile from the hepatic ducts and cystic duct to the duodenum.
What is the common bile duct?
This vitamin is crucial in hemostasis. It is necessary for the synthesis of prothrombin and several other hepatic clotting factors.
What is vitamin K?
Milky-white lymph formed from the end-products of fat digestion that enter the lacteal.
What is Chyle?
Serious antibiotic-associated colitis.
What is Clostridium Difficile or C. diff?
Digests proteins to peptides and amino acids.
hint: found in pancreas
What is Proteases?
The enzymes of this organ are the most important of all the digestive enzymes.
What is the pancreas?
This causes ascites and esophageal varices.
What is portal vein hypertension?