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Enzyme that breaks down starch into sugars
Amylase
Inability to digest milk
Lactose intolerance
Standing, with palms facing forward
Anatomical Position
Prevents stomach from digesting itself
Mucus
Immune systems responds to eating gluten by damaging villi
Celiac disease
Parents producing offspring
Reproduction
Most important digestive enzyme for breaking down food
Pepsin
Condition where stomach acid flows back up into the esophagus
GERD
The study of the structures of an organism
Anatomy
Paste after food has been broken down
Chyme
Chronic inflation in the digestive tract
Crohns disease
Movement of substances throughout the body
Circulation
Folds within stomach
Rugae
Intestines poke through abdominal muscles
Hernia
The study of what structures in an organism do and how they do it
Physiology