Organic Organs
This is a cavity that is posterior to the mouth and leads to the esophagus
What is the Pharynx?
This is the overall process of mechanical and chemical breakdown of foods and the absorption of the resulting nutrients by cells
What is Digestion?
This layer of the alimentary canal contains glands, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves
What is the Submucosa?
This juice is produced in the liver and is used for most digestive metabolic processes and is especially useful in breaking down fats.
What is Bile?
This is the total number of permanent teeth humans have (including wisdom teeth)
What is 32?
This is the main digestive organ that is filled with highly acidic juices
What is the Stomach?
This is the color of George Washington's white horse?
What is White?
Glittering points that downward thrust.
Sparkling spears that never rust.
What am I?
Icicles
The more you have of it, the less you see.
What is it?
Darkness
This organ is used to store bile between meals
What is the Gallbladder?
This forms the roof of the mouth is composed of hard and soft portions
What is the Palate?
This layer of the alimentary canal provides movements of the canal which propels substances forward/downward
What is Muscular?
This is the term for the propelling movements done by the esophagus, stomach, and the small intestine
What is Peristalsis?
This is the total number of primary teeth humans have
What is 20?
This is the name of the main portion of the stomach
What is the Body?
Each morning I appear to lie at your feet.
All day I will follow, no matter how fast you run.
Yet I nearly perish in the mid-day sun.
Your Shadow.
At night they come without being fetched.
By day they are lost without being stolen.
What are they?
Forward I'm heavy, but backwards I'm not.
What am I?
This organ produces juice which helps to neutralize acidic chyme that enters the small intestine
What is the Pancreas?
This type of digestion breaks large pieces into smaller ones but does not alter the chemical composition.
What is Mechanical Digestion?
This is the innermost layer of the alimentary canal and is covered in villi and microvilli
What is Mucosa?
This is the name for the combination of food and saliva before it has dropped into the stomach.
What is a Bolus?
This is the type of tooth that wisdom teeth are categorized as.
What are Molars (full points) or Permanent/Secondary (half points)?
This part of the stomach is a small opening near the esophageal opening
What is the Cardia?
Lighter than what I am made of
More of me is hidden than seen.
What am I?
An Iceburg.
You heard me before.
Yet you hear me again.
Then I die.
Until you call me again.
What am I?
Your Echo
At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet.
At the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep.
What am I?
Music
This is the passageway that leads from the Pharynx to the Stomach
What is the Esophagus?
This is the name for the main movement of the stomach which works to combine digestive juices with food particles
What are Mixing Movements?
This is what villi and microvilli add to the alimentary canal
What is more surface area (or increased absorption)?
This is the mass of food and gastric juices during and after time spent in the stomach.
What is Chyme?
This is the other term for primary teeth. Another word for this term is: to shed or fall over time.
What is Deciduous?
This part of the stomach is composed of the pyloric canal and the pyloric sphincter
What is the Pylorus?
What always runs but never walks?
Often murmurs but never talks?
Has a bed but never sleeps?
Has a mouth but never eats?
A River.
Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin.
Light enough to caress the sky.
Hard enough to crack rocks.
What am I?
Water
You throw away the outside and cook the inside.
Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.
What did you eat?
Corn on the Cob
This organ is heavily involved in the metabolism of lipids, carbohydrates, and proteins, and also produces bile
What is the Liver?
This type of digestion breaks food down into simpler components on a molecular level.
What is Chemical Digestion?
This layer of the canal is the outermost layer and provides protection/lubrication so it can slide against other organs
What is Serosa?
This enzyme is produced in the salivary glands and is used to break down starch and glycogen molecules
What is Salivary Amylase?
This is the outer layer of teeth. It is also the strongest substance in the human body.
What is Enamel?
This part of the stomach is superior to the cardia and works as a temporary storage area
What is the Fundus?
I am the beginning of the end and the end of time and space.
I am essential to creation and I surround "every place." What am I?
The Letter E.
The one who makes it, sells it.
The one who buys it never uses it.
The one who uses it never knows they use it.
What is it?
A Coffin
Until I am measured I am not known.
Yet how you miss me when I have flown.
What am I?
Time