Digestive System
A chronic liver disease which the liver has scar tissue
What is Cirrhosis?
Decreases the surface tension
What is surfactant?
You have just eaten a meal high in complex carbohydrates. Which of the following enzymes will help to digest the meal
The amount of air remaining in the lungs after a forced expiration
What is residual volume (RV)?
Expiration against a closed larynx
What is the Valsalva's maneuver?
HCl is found in this organ
What is the stomach?
Oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in the lungs and through all cell membranes by
What is diffusion?
Fat containing foods such as short-chain triglycerides, which are very fatty, found in foods such as butterfat molecules in milk are split by a specific enzyme
What is lipase?
Air moves out of the lungs when the pressure inside the lungs is
Greater than atmospheric pressure
It is produced by the stomach, and increases stomach secretions
What is gastrin?
the organ in the digestive system would most of the food is absorbed
The relationship between gas pressure and gas volume
What is Boyle's law
It is produced by the pancreas in response to intestinal cells being exposed to HCl
What is bicarb?
It sets the respiratory rhythm
What is the Ventral respiratory group (VRG)?
Destruction of these cells below would result in lack of intrinsic factor
What are parietal cells?
It inhibits the digestive system or slows it down
What is the sympathetic system?
It is located in the nasal cavity and serves to enhance air turbulence
What is the Nasal conchae?
Pepsinogen, a digestive enzyme, is secreted by the ________.
What are the chief cells?
The differences between intrapleural pressure and intrapulmonary pressure
What is Transpulmonary pressure?
Waves of muscular contractions and relaxation, moving contents from one point to another
What is peristaltic waves?
When a person eats food and it drops to their stomach, the large intestine is triggered to release it’s contents
What is the gastrocolic reflex?
Keeps the lungs expanded with lower pressure than intrapulmonary pressure
What is the pleural cavity?
These enzymes are specific for the breakdown of proteins
What is pepsin and trypsin?
Herniation of the stomach into the thoracic region
What is a hiatal hernia?
Every time a patient eats, their gall bladder doesn’t contract. Where would you look for the source of the hormone that causes the gall bladder to contract?
What is small intestine?