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About how many times do you swallow each day? |
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flap of tissue, reinforced by cartilage that folds over the entrance to larynx during swallowing |
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Where is the swallowing center? |
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medulla oblongata of brain |
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glycoprotein required for absorption of vitamin B12 in small intestine (to avoid pernicious anemia) |
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viscous, highly acidic mixture of ingested substances combined with glandular secretions of stomach |
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What are the parts of the stomach? |
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cardia, fundus, body, pylorus |
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What part of the stomach joins with the duodenum of small intestine? |
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What regulates release of chime into duodenum and prevents regurgitation back into stomach? |
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What secretes mucus and gastrin? |
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What is the digestive hormone that stimulates activity of gastric glands? |
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prominent folds I mucosa of stomach, these stretch as you eat |
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How much can a full stomach hold? |
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What in the stomach secrete intrinsic factor and hydrochloric acid (HCl)? |
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What is the pH of the contents of the stomach? |
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What in the stomach secrete pepsinogen? |
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What is a proenzyme that is converted to the active pepsin when it comes in contact with HCl and is the most important digestive enzyme? |
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What are common substances that may be absorbed from stomach into bloodstream? |
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glucose, water, alcohol, and aspirin |
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What can the prolonged use of aspirin cause? |
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What has a key role in digestion and absorption of nutrients and is where 90% of digestion occurs? |
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Where does almost all of the rest of digestion take place? |
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What is another name for the large intestine? |
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On average, how long is the small intestine? |
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What are the parts of the small intestine? |
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duodenum, jejunum, and ileum |
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What bears a series of traverse folds called plical which are permanent and do not disappear as rugae I stomach when the small intestine fills? |
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What lies posterior to the stomach laterally from duodenum and toward the spleen? |
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What are the digestive cells and make up 99% of associated organ? |
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What 1% of the pancreas secretes hormones, insulin, and glucagon? |
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What happens when chyme enters the duodenum? |
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hormone that causes pancreas to secrete a water buffer with pH of 7.5-8.8 |
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What causes pancreas to produce and secrete pancreatic enzymes? |
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duodenal hormone cholecystokinin |
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inadequate blood supply to a region |
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largest visceral organ (internal) |
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scientific term for liver |
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What are phagocytic with monocytes that engulf pathogens, cell debris, damaged blood cells, store iron, lipids, and heavy metals like tin and mercury that are absorbed by digestive tract? |
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