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| Passage of materials through the walls of the small intestine into the bloodstream |
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| Small building blocks of protein (like links in a chain), released when proteins are digested. |
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| Enzyme secreted by the pancreas to digest starch |
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| Terminal end or opening of the digestive tract to the outside of the body |
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| Blind pouch hanging from the cecum in the right lower quadrant |
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| Digestive juice made in the liver and stored in the gallbladder that break up large fat globules |
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| pancreatic enzyme necessary to digest fats |
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| Combining form meaning hang |
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| Bile was originally called _____ and stems from the Latin word ________, meaning gall or _________, probably because it has a bitter _______. |
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| gall; bilis; anger; taste |
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| What three things compose bile? |
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| bile pigments, cholesterol, bile salts |
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| pigment released by the liver in bile |
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| pointed, dog-like teeth next to the incisors. |
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| What are two other names for canine teeth? |
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| first part of large intestine |
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| large intestine, consisting of the cecum; the ascending, transverse, and descending segments of the colon; and the rectum |
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| carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the duodenum. |
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| another name for the common bile duct |
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| elimination of feces from the digestive tract through the anus |
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| the primary material found in teeth, covered by enamel in the crown and a protective layer of cementum in the root |
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| breakdown of complex foods to simpler forms |
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| first part of the small intestine |
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| How long is the duodenum? |
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| act of removal of materials from the body |
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| In the digestive system, indigestible materials are removed from the body as _______ |
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| physical process of breaking up large fat globules into smaller globules, thereby increasing the surface area that enzymes can use to digest the fat |
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| hard, outermost layer of a tooth |
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| a chemical that speeds up a reaction between substances |
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| Digestive enzymes break down ______ foods into _________ substances |
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| A name that ends in -ase denotes an __________ |
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| tube connecting the throat to the stomach |
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| The prefix eso- means _________ |
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| The combined form phag/o means________ |
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| substances produced when fats are digested |
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| small sac uder the liver that stores bile |
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| Glucose is stored in the form of glycogen in the _______ cells |
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| substance produced by the stomach that is necessary for the digestion of food |
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| third part of the small intestine |
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| Ileum comes from the _____ word eilos, meaning __________ |
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| Which part of the small intestine is often an area of obstruction? |
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| one of four front teeth inthe dental arch |
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| hormone produced by the endocrine cells of the pancreas that transports sugar from the blood into cells and stimulates glycogen formation by the liver |
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| second part of the small intestine |
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| The Latin word _______ means empty, called that because this part of the _________ was always empty when a body was examined after death. |
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