Basic
Once considered a vestigial organ, this organ reboots the intestines after a bad illness by providing a safe harbor for bacteria.
What is the appendix?
Moves food around the mouth to form the bolus.
What is the tongue?
Two parts of digestion; breaking up food into small pieces and breaking down food in order for it to be absorbed into your blood.
What are physical and chemical digestion?
The organ which produces saliva.
What is the salivary gland?
A disease caused by the body's inability to form collagen in the proper way due to a vitamin C deficiency.
What is scurvy?
The sum of the parts of the digestive system through which food actually passes.
What is another name for the alimentary canal?
Where bile is concentrated and stored then injected into the small intestine to aid in digestion.
What is the gall bladder?
A, D, E, AND K
What are the fat soluble vitamins?
Where undigested food is turned into feces.
What is the large intestine?
A condition which weakens the bones due to a lack of calcium intake.
What is osteoporosis?
Where food is broken down chemically, and most of the micronutrients and macronutrients are absorbed by the bloodstream through its lining.
What is the small intestine?
roughly 5 inches long, this organ makes several digestive juices, including baking soda, that squirt into the small intestines as chyme passes through the pyloric sphincter.
What is the pancreas?
The water-soluble vitamins.
What are C and B group vitamins?
smooth muscles contract above the bolus and relax below it to help the food go down to the stomach through this tube.
What is the esophagus?
Too little iron resulting in an inability to distribute oxygen efficiently.
What is anemia?
Contains chemicals that break down starch at the onset of digestion.
What is saliva?
A chemical in gastric juice which functions to dissolve food, kill pathogenic organisms, and activate digestive chemicals in the gastric juice.
What is hydrochloric acid?
Can be absorbed by the body even if they are not in any food that is eaten?
What are D and K?
Ring of muscles between the stomach and the small intestine.
What is the pyloric sphincter?
A necessary vitamin for blood-clotting produced by bacteria in your large intestine and from a healthy diet.
What is vitamin K?
A small flap of cartilage covering the larynx, thus leading the bolus into the esophagus, not the lungs.
What is the epiglottis?
Opens to allow bolus to enter into the stomach from the esophagus.
What is the cardiac sphincter?
Most likely to build up to toxic levels if you take too many vitamin pills.
What are the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K?
Makes bile and stores glycogen and fats for energy.
What is the function of the liver?
Burning sensation felt in the middle or upper part of the chest due to excess stomach acid leaking up and out of the stomach into the esophagus.
What is heartburn?