Vocab
Largest digestive organ
Liver
Also called pyridoxine, pyridoxal, or pryidoxamine
Vitamin B6
Hemochromatosis can lead to high levels of this mineral
Iron
What structure attaches the tongue to the floor of the mouth?
Frenulum
How many calories are in a gram of carbohydrate?
4
Name for 'food' after it has been mixed with digestive enzymes in the stomach and is then removed into the small intestine
Chyme
Deficiency can lead to neural tube defects
Vitamin B9
Excess can cause brown staining of teeth
Fluoride
The first portion of the small intestine
Duodenum
What type of molecule cannot be digested by humans
Cellulose
Cecum
Vitamin our bodies can make from exposure to sunlight
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is important for absorption of this mineral
Calcium
What sphincter is under voluntary control
External sphincter
Denaturation
term to describe nutrients that the body needs but cannot make for itself and must obtain in the diet
essential
Elderly and vegans at risk for deficiency - pernicous anemia
Vitamin B12
Important for formation of phospholipids
Phosphorus
In what structure would you find haustra?
Large intestine
What vitamins are water soluble
process of replacing a nutrient that was lost during processing
enriched
Deficiency can lead to beriberi - alcoholics at risk
Thiamin / B1
Excess can cause hypertension
Sodium
What are the three functions ion CCK in the digestive tract?
Inc pancreatic secretions, dec stomach motility, gallbladder contraction
Weakened sphincters, dec digestive enzyme secretion, dec peristalsis, loosening of teeth, breakdown of enamel