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| What is the job of the digestive system? |
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| break down large insoluable food molecules into smaller ones so that these soluable molecules can pass across the intestine wall into the blood. |
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| what is included in the allimentary canal. |
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| mouth pharynx esophagus somach small intestine large intestine anal canal |
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| accessory organs of the digestive system. |
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| salivary glands pancreas liver and gallbladder |
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| job of the salivary glands and what do they secrete. |
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| make saliva and help the bolus go down the esophagus easily. secretes amylase. |
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| distinctive pattern of smooth muscle contractions that propels food through the esophagus and intestines. |
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| where is protein digested |
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| duodenum of the small intestine |
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| make food you eat into a liquid so your intestines can digest it. |
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| main job of the small intestine |
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| break down and absorb nutrients |
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| 3 parts of small intestine |
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| job of the circular folds villi and microvilli |
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microvilli: trap partivles
Villi: absorb nutrients
Folds. Increase surface area. |
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| job of the large intestine |
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| eliminates water from waste and sends the rest of the waste to the rectum |
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| 5 parts if the large intestine |
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| accending transverse decending cecum and appendix |
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| mechanical digestion takes place where |
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| mouth stomach and small intestine |
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| digestive job of the liver |
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| produce bile wheich leaves the liver through common hepatic duct |
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| bile is stored where? what is it made of ? purpose? |
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in the liver
helps digest fat
cholesterol lecithin pigments and salts |
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| urine made in the digestive system? |
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| waste product of the digestive system |
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| yellowish stining of the skin caused by the liver and or gallbladder |
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| beaver fever or giardial infection is an infection of the digestive system caused by the giardia lamblia a single celled organism |
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| inflammation of the liver causes of it include viral infections a b and c that most of us have heard of it is treated with drugs. |
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