Digestive System 1
This stores and breaks down food for about 4 hours and kills bacteria.
What is the stomach?
The first part of digestion where your teeth break down food
True or False?
Teeth are part of our digestive system
What is TRUE?
Inflammation of the appendix
What appendicitis
what is BM
Breaks down food to give our bodies energy
What is the digestive system?
Chewing allows you to do this
What is swallow?
True or False?
The digestive tract is 30 ft. long
What is TRUE?
FYI, The small intestine is about 22 feet (about as tall as a giraffe)!
Stomach ache/pain
What is gastralgia
IBS
What is irritable bowel syndrome
Liquid in your mouth that mixes with food particles.
What is saliva?
This helps you swallow
What is the tongue?
A liquid created in the liver that breaks down food
What is bile?
Any intestinal disease
enteropathy
UGI
Upper gastrointestinal
This food pipe transports food from your mouth to your stomach
Esophagus
This absorbs and transports food particles to our body through blood
What is the small intestine?
Absorbs water and sends waste out of our body
What is the large intestine?
scope of the stomach
gastroscopy
Liver function test
What is LFT
An enzyme in your stomach that breaks down protein
What is pepsin?
What is the pancreas?
Creates bile which is used to break down fats in the small intestine
What is the liver?
flap that covers the larynx during swallowing
epiglottis
CB
What is a Code Brown