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| Wht is the branch of medicine concerned with the structure, functions, diseases, and pathology of the stomach and intestines? |
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| What is the primary function of the digestive system? |
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| To prepare food for cellular respiration |
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| What are the two categories of organs that make up the digestive system? |
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Digestive Organs
Accessory Digestive Organs |
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| The oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine make up what portion of the digestive system? |
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| Gastrointestinal (GI) Tract |
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| The teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gallbladder, and pancras make up what portion of the digestive system? |
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| Accessory Digestive Organs |
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| List the six main functions of the digestive system. |
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Ingestion
Digestion
Peristalsis
Secretion
Absorption
Elimination |
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| What function of the digestive system involves the introduction of solid and lipuid nutrients into the oral cavity? |
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| What function of the digestive system involves the breakdown of large food items into smaller structures and molecules? |
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| What aspect of digestion involves the break down of ingested material into smaller pieces of the same material? |
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| What aspect of digestion involves the breakdown of molecules into their component parts? |
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| What is the medical term for chewing? |
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| What is the process of muscular contraction that forms ripples along part of the GI tract and causes material to move further along the tract? |
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| What is the churning and mixing movement that occurs in the small intestin? |
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| What is the process of producing and releasing fluid products, such as acid, bile, digestive enzymes, and mucin? |
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| What is the passive or active transport of electrolytes, digestion products, vitamins, and water across the GI tract epithelium and into GI tract blood and lymphatic vessels? |
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| What are all the undigestable materials as well as waste products secreted by the accessory organs into the GI tract and discharged through the anus? |
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| What is the process of elimination by the digestive system? |
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| What is the anatomical term for the mouth? |
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| What type of tissue lines the oral cavity? |
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| Nonkeritinized Stratified Squamous Epithelium |
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| What muscle lies within the cheek? |
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| What are the anterior terminations of the cheeks? |
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| What is the anatomical term for the gums? |
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| What thin folds of mucosa on the midline attach the lips to the gums? |
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| What forms the roof of the mouth? |
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| What are the two portions of the palate? |
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| What bones form the hard palate? |
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| What is the conical, median projection of the soft palate? |
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| What accessory organ of the digestive system lies on the floor of the oral cavity and is composed largely of skeletal muscle covered with stratified squamous epithelium? |
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| What thin, vertical mucous membrane attaches the floor of the tonge to the floor of the oral cavity? |
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| How many pains of multicellular glands are there? |
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| What salivary glands are located anterior and inferior to the ear and partially covered by the masseter? |
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| What structure drains the largest salivary glands? |
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| Where does the parotid gland enter the oral cavity? |
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| What salivary glands lig inferior to the body of the mandible? |
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| Submandibular Salivary Glands |
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| What structure drains the salivary glands lying inferior to the body of the mandible? |
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| Where do the ducts of the submandibular glands enter the oral cavity? |
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| On the lateral Sids of the Lingual Frenulum |
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| What salivary glands are named for their postition inferior to the tongue? |
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| Sublingual Salivary Glands |
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| What part of a tooth is exposed and covered with enamel? |
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| What part of a tooth lies within the gums? |
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| What part of a tooth lies within the bone of the jaw? |
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| What are the sockets that hold the roots of the teeth? |
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| What processes of what bones hold the teeth? |
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| Alveolar Proccesses of the Maxilla and Mandible |
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| What forms the primary mass of a tooth? |
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| What material covers the crown of a tooth? |
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| What is the space that lies within the center of a tooth? |
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| What fills the space within a tooth? |
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| What passage within a tooth opens into the connective tissue surrounding root and is continuous with the pulp cavity? |
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| What is the opening between the root canal of a tooth and the surrounding connective tissue? |
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| What surface of a tooth is closest to the midline? |
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| What surface of a tooth is farthest from the midline? |
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| What surface of a tooth is adjacent to the internal surface of the cheek? |
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| What surface of a tooth is adjacent to the internal surface of the lip? |
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| What surface of a tooth faces the tongue? |
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| What surface of a tooth is where the teeth from the opposing superior and inferior arches meet? |
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| What set of teeth erupt between 6 months and 30 months after birth and are eventually lost? |
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| What set of teeth begin apperaring at about six years of age and remain through the lifetime of an individual? |
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| How many deciduous teeth are there? |
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| How many permanent teeth are there? |
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| What chisel-shaped teeth only have one root? |
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| What teeth have a pointed tip for puncturing and tearing? |
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| What teeth have flat crowns with prominent ridges and may have one or two roots? |
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| What teeth are the thickest, have large, broad, flat crowns with distinctive cusps, and three or more roots? |
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| Give the dental formula for deciduous teeth. |
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| Give the dental formula for permanent teeth. |
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| I2/2,C1/1,P2/2M3/3=16X2=32 |
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| How are teeth numbered in an adult? |
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Top Row: 1-16 Right to Left Wisdom Teeth
Bottom Row: 17-32 Right to Left Wisdom Teeth (3rd Molar) |
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