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| A greenish-yellow or brown fluid produced by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and released into the small intestine. |
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| An enzyme capable of digesting proteins in an acid pH. |
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| Elevations or ridges, as in the mucosa of the stomach. |
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| The fluid portion of the blood. |
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| Small pocketlike sacs in the colon. |
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| Last part of the digestive system. |
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Bile production and excretion
Excretion of bilirubin, cholesterol, hormones, and drugs
Metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates
Enzyme activation
Storage of glycogen, vitamins, and minerals
Synthesis of plasma proteins, such as albumin, and clotting factors
Blood detoxification and purification |
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| the serous membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal cavity or the coelom |
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| space between the two pleura (visceral and parietal) of the lungs |
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| a circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice |
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| fibrous, non-globular protein involved in the clotting of blood. |
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| solution that bathes and surrounds the cells of multicellular animals |
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| exchange oxygen with red blood cells when the heart's Sinoatrial and Atrioventricular nodes send electric signals to the hearts ventricles. |
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| ca´lyces a cup-shaped organ or cavity, e.g., one of the recesses of the pelvis of the kidney |
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| part of the gastrointestinal tract following the stomach and followed by the large intestine |
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| controls how quickly the body uses energy, makes proteins, and controls how sensitive the body is to other hormones |
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| devoted to the synthesis of corticosteroid and androgen hormones |
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| endocrine gland producing several important hormones and a digestive organ, secreting pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes that assist the absorption of nutrients and the digestion in the small intestine |
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| The cecum marks the beginning of the large intestine and is basically a big pouch that receives waste material from the small intestine |
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| one of two large chambers that collect and expel blood received from an atrium towards the peripheral beds within the body and lungs |
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| This gap acts as a site where neurotransmitters from presynaptic cell (e.g. neuron) are released into by exocytosis and diffuses across to bind with the receptors in the cell membrane of postsynaptic cell. |
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| a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that typically conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body. In certain sensory neurons (pseudounipolar neurons), such as those for touch and warmth, the electrical impulse travels along an axon from the periphery to the cell body, and from the cell body to the spinal cord along another branch of the same axon |
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| a ganglion is a biological tissue mass, most commonly a mass of nerve cell bodies |
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| the period of time when the heart refills with blood after systole ( contraction). |
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| semifluid, creamy material produced by digestion of food |
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| the branched projections of a neuron that act to conduct the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma, of the neuron from which the dendrites project. |
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