Digestion System
This is where fats are broken down
What is the small intestine?
Cancer
What is a disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue?
Chronic Diarrhea
What are antibiotics?
Function of the small intestine
What transforms carbohydrates, proteins, and fats into fuel for the body?
Food material passed through the pancreas just before reaching the stomach.
What is False
Hernia
What is a bulging of an organ or tissue through an abnormal opening?
Peptic ulcers
What are antacids, drugs, less stress, and liquid bandages?
Function of the pharynx
What carries air to/ from the trachea and food into the esophagus?
This liquid produced in the mouth helps break down food
What is saliva?
GERD
What is a digestive disease in which stomach acid or bile irritates the food pipe lining?
Chronic Constipation
What is drinking plenty of water, eating nutrition, and less stress?
Function of the cecum
What absorbs fluids and salts that remain in the small intestine after digestion occurs?
List the four layers of the alimentary canal
What is serosa, musclaris, submucosa, mucosa?
IBS
What is an intestinal disorder causing pain in the belly, gas, diarrhea, and constipation?
IBD
What is antibiotics, less stress, and diet change?
Function of mucosa
What is absorption and secretion?
This protects the stomach from its own acidic juices
What is gastric muscosa?
Chronic Kidney Disease
What is a longstanding disease of the kidneys leading to renal failure?
GERD
What are surgery, diet, and medication?
Digestive system
What is physical breaking down food into smaller pieces, and chemically breaking down food into fat, carbohydrates, and protein? What helps absorbs nutrients into the blood and help maintain the proper amount of water, nutrients, and electrolytes?