First of a succession of hollow organs that transport their contents through muscular contractions
What is the esophagus?
100
First major muscle movement.
What is swallowing?
100
A mechnical and chemical breakdown of foods
What is digestion?
100
Chews food into smaller pieces
What is the mouth?
100
It involves abdominal pain and abnormal bowel movements.
What is irretable bowl syndrome?
200
A large muscular chamber that mixes food up with digestive juices
What is the stomach?
200
Where food is stored, mixed and is emptied into the small intestines.
What is the stomach?
200
Passage of digested food from digestive track into circulatory system
What is absorption?
200
Moves food to the stomach
What is the esophogus?
200
consists of three conditions that involve the development of small sacs or pockets in the wall of the colon
What is Diverticular disease?
300
Where the major digestion and absorption of nutrients take place.
What is the small intestine?
300
_________ __________ are absorbed through the intestinal walls and transported throughout the body.
What are digestive nutrients?
300
Explusion of undigested food or body wastes
What is elimination?
300
Breaks up food into nutrients and gets rid of waste
What is intestines?
300
the result of damage to the intestinal lining, making it less able to protect the internal environment as well as to filter needed nutrients and other biological substances.
What is Leaky gut syndrome?
400
A gland organ located behind the stomach that manufactures a cocktail of enzymes. that are pumped into the duodenum.
What is the pancreas?
400
Materials move into the ______ where they remain until the feces are expelled by a bowel movement.
What is the colon?
400
This includes digestive, absorption, and elimination
What is the digestive system?
400
_____ breaks up food in the stomach
What is enzymes?
400
An infection that causes diarrhea and a rash -- most commonly due to a type of bacteria called Salmonella typhi (S. typhi).
What is typhoid fever?
500
Bodys main chemical factory
What is the liver?
500
Food moves from one organ to the next through this muscle action
What is peristalsis?
500
absorption is the passage of digested food from _____ track into the circulatory system
What is digestive?
500
the mouth, esophogus, and the small and large intestines are all parts that make up the _______
What is the Digestive System Process?
500
4 problems that can occur in the digestive system.
What are irretable bowl syndrome, diverticular disease, leaky gut syndrome and typhoid fever?