Name that Organ
This organ is responsible for breaking down food both mechanically and chemically, beginning the digestive process.
What is the oral cavity?
This is the process of taking in food and drink through the mouth.
What is the medical term for the inflammation of the liver?
What is hepatitis?
This organ produces bile, which emulsifies fats in the small intestine.
What is the liver?
gastr/itis
CV dropped because suffix begins with a vowel
This organ absorbs water and forms solid waste before it is eliminated from the body
What is the large intestine?
The final stage of digestion where indigestible waste is removed from the body
What is elimination?
This medical term describes the condition of having gallstones.
What is cholelithiasis?
This organ produces enzymes that help digest fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.
What is the pancreas?
cholecyst/ectomy
CV dropped before a suffix beginning with a vowel
This organ contains villi, which dramatically increase the surface area to absorb nutrients from digested food.
What is the small intestine?
This occurs in the small intestine and allows nutrients to enter the bloodstream.
What is the absorption?
What is the term for the surgical removal of the gallbladder?
What is a cholecystectomy?
This organ stores and concentrates bile before releasing it into the small intestine.
What is the gallbladder?
pancreat/o/tomy
Keep the combining vowel before a suffix beginning with a consonant
This part of the throat serves as a passageway for both air and food, directing food to the esophagus.
What is the pharynx?
The process in which teeth and muscles break down food into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical digestion?
What term refers to the visual examination of the esophagus, stomach, and upper small intestine?
What is an esophagogastroduodenoscopy
This duct transports bile from the liver and gallbladder to the duodenum.
What is the common bile duct?
gastr/o/enter/o/scopy
Keep CV between two roots & keep CV before a suffix beginning with consonant.
This large accessory organ produces bile, which aids in the digestion of fats.
What is the liver?
This type of digestion breaks food down into nutrients through the use of enzymes like amylase and lipase.
What is chemical digestion?
This medical term describes difficulty in swallowing, often associated with conditions affecting the esophagus.
What is dysphagia
The common bile duct opens into this part of the small intestine, allowing bile and pancreatic enzymes to aid in digestion.
What is the duodenum?
Keep CV between two roots & drop CV before a suffix beginning with a vowel.