Function
Disorders
Process
Accessory Organs
Anatomy
100
The process of taking in food.
What is ingestion?
100
THis is the only active and voluntary process.
What is ingestion?
100
Organ that mixes food in the mouth and initiates swallowing.
What is the tongue?
100
This is the passageway for food and air.
What is the pharynx?
200
This occurs when food mixes with saliva, another word for chewing.
What is mastication?
200
This is a condition when the body can't use glucose normally.
What is diabetes?
200
This is the propulsive process that moves food through the digestive system.
What is peristalsis?
200
The main function of the incisors.
What is cutting?
200
The organ in which food digestion begins.
What is the stomach?
300
This is the process of physically and chemically breaking down food into nutrient molecules.
What is digestion?
300
This disorder occurs when there is a lack of vitamin C, known to occur in pirates.
What is scurvy?
300
These are examples of mechanical digestion.
What is mixing food in mouth with tongue, churning food in stomach, or segmentation in small intestine?
300
This organ produces enzymes and breaks down all categories of digestible foods.
What is the pancreas?
300
These are the three subdivisions of the small intestine.
What are the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum?
400
THis is the process of absorbing nutrients into the bloodstream.
What is absorption?
400
Taeniasis is the infection by this kind of parisite.
What is tapeworm?
400
Large food is broken down by enzymes.
What is chemical digestion?
400
This organs digestive function is to produce bile.
What is the liver?
400
This intestine is larger in diameter but shorter in length.
What is the large intestine?
500
This is the process of getting rid of indigestible remains.
What is defecation?
500
This is an inflammation of the liver.
What is hepatitis?
500
These are common examples of simple sugars in our diets.
What is glucose, fructose, or galactose?
500
When food digestion is not occuring, bile backs up into the gallbladder through this duct.
What is the cystic duct?
500
These are the four tissue layers of the esophagus.
What is the mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, and serosa?
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