Digestive System Basics
Digestive System Continued
Urinary System Basics
Urinary System Disorders
Anatomy
100
This substance moistens foods, contains enzymes that begin carbohydrate digestion and helps with swallowing.
What is saliva?
100
This occurs when stomach acid flows back into the esophagus. Also known as heart burn.
What is acid reflux?
100
The sac that collects urine for excretion
What is bladder?
100
This occurs when hard deposits form inside the kidney.
What are kidney stones?
100
#1
What is the Mouth?
200
This enzyme begins carbohydrate digestion in the mouth
What is amylase?
200
This organ is likely malfunctioning if someone is jaundiced due to a buildup of bilirubin.
What is liver?
200
The filtering unit of the kidney. There are millions in each kidney.
What is nephron?
200
With this disease, kidneys do not respond to hormones so patients feel thirsty all of the time and need to urinate frequently.
What is diabetes insipidus?
200
#3
What is esophagus?
300
The two types of digestion
What are mechanical digestion and chemical digestion?
300
This organ produces bile which helps digest fats. A disorder of this organ can lead to fat malapsorption.
What is the liver?
300
The number of ureters and kidneys in a normal human body.
What is 2 and 2?
300
This disease is caused by inflamed nephrons and patients experience pain, cloudy urine, and swelling.
What is nephritis?
300
What is Large Intestine?
400
The major organ of the digestive system
What is the small intestine?
400
This substance emulsifies fats for digestion and is stored in the gallbladder.
What is bile?
400
The tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body.
What is the urethra?
400
What is the main way to treat a UTI?
What are antibiotics?
400
#2
What is salivary glands?
500
The small intestine is efficient in absorption because of this
What is large surface area?
500
This digestive system disorder produces symptoms such as abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and jaundice. The cause is high cholesterol, poor diet, obesity and genetics.
What are gallstones?
500
This waste product found in the urine comes from the normal wear and tear on muscles from the body.
What is creatinine?
500
This is the hormone that kidneys do not respond to when they have diabetes insipidus.
What is vasopressin?
500
What is Pancreas?