Vocabulary
Soft ball of chewed food ready to be swallowed.
What is Bolus?
Physical breakdown of food by chewing (teeth).
What is Mechanical Digestion?
To break down material and absorb.
Latin for "apart"
What is "di-"
Young patient with no teeth.
What is Mechanical Digestion?
Enzyme that breaks starch into simple sugars.
What is Salivary Amylase?
Uses hydrochloric acid and pepsin to digest proteins.
What is the Stomach?
The past tense of Digest.
What is Digested?
Latin for Divided
What is the Small Intestine?
Acidic fluids in the stomach that help chemical digestion.
What is Gastric Juices?
Main site of digestion and nutrient absorption.
What is the Small Intestine?
The "act of" Digestion.
What is Digesting?
Latin for distributed, dissolved, digested
What is Digest?
What is Peristalsis?
Semi-liquid mixture of food and digestive juices leaving the stomach.
What is Chyme?
Absorbs water and electrolytes; forms feces.
What is the Large Intestine?
Latin for "carry"
What is "gerere?"
Patient has chronic diarrhea.
What is the Large Intestine?
Tiny finger-like structures that increase absorption surface area.
What is villi and microvilli?
The elimination of waste from the body.
What is Defacation?
"Able to be" Digested.
Latin for "matters methodically arranged"
What is Digesta?
Patient has painful swallowing.
What is the Esophogus?