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What are the 4 phases of processing food in your body? - Answer Ingestion, digestion, absorption and elimination What is digestion? - Answer The process that breaks down food into small molecules so they can move into the blood stream What does food pass through? - Answer Digestive tract What are the major organs of the digestive tract? - Answer Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum and anus What are the 3 oragans that food does not pass thro...

The mechanical and chemical breakdown of food into forms that can be absorbed by cell membranes is - Answer Digestion The mouth, pharynx, esophagus, small intestine, and large intestine make up the digestion system. - Answer Alimentary Canal The salivary glands, gallbladder, liver and pancreas are considered - Answer Accessory Organs The vessels that nourish the structures of the alimentary canal are found in the - Answer Submucosa Functions of the mouth - Answer Speec...

The digestive system consists of: The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract) or alimentary canal plus the accessory organs What does the digestive system do? It breaks down food into nutrients that can be absorbed by the bloodstream and delivered to the body cells in useable form (GI tract or alimentary canal and accessory organs) What is the alimentary canal (GI tract)? Continuous tube consisting of oral cavity (mouth), pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intesti...

A patient with Crohn's disease has been on drug therapy to treat the condition. She is now seen for extreme pain. An x-ray is taken, showing small bowel obstruction. The patient is taken immediately to surgery and a partial colectomy is performed with an end-to-end anastomosis. Which code(s) should be reported? : 44120 Which code(s) should be assigned for esophagoscopy with dilation of the esophagus using a balloon of 36 mm with radiological guidance for achalasia? : 43214 A female ...

The Structure and Function of the Digestive System OVERVIEW What organs make up the digestive system? Your digestive system is uniquely constructed to perform its specialized function of turning food into the energy you need to survive and packaging the residue for waste disposal. To help you understand how the many parts of the digestive system work together, here is an overview of the structure and function of this complex system. Mouth The mouth is the beginning of the digestiv...

Digestive System Test Questions What are the accessory organs of the alimentary canal? - /nteeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gall bladder, pancreas Teeth - /ngrinds food (mastication) Tongue - /ncreates bolus from chewed food and saliva Salivary glands - /nsecretes saliva -dissolves food molecules for taste -contains starch digesting enzymes to begin digestion of carbs three glands -parotid, submandibular gland, sublingual gland

IGCSE Biology - Digestive system-Questions and Answers Graded A+ digestive system - ANSWER-body system the breaks down food and absorbs nutrients Digestion - ANSWER-Breakdown of food substances into simpler forms that can be absorbed and used Oesophagus - ANSWER-Tube connecting the mouth to the stomach stomach - ANSWER-large muscular sac that continues the mechanical and chemical digestion of food small intestine - ANSWER-Digestive organ where most chemical digestion and absorptio...

Digestive system aqa gcse biology unit 2-Questions and Answers Graded A+ What is produced in the salivary gland? - ANSWER-Amylase in the saliva What happens in the gullet/oesophagus? - ANSWER-The muscles help the food go into the stomach What happens in the stomach? - ANSWER-Produces protease enzyme, pepsin What does the stomach do? - ANSWER-It produces hydrochloric acid to kill bacteria and to give the right ph which is 2 for the enzyme to work. What happens in the liver? - ANSWE...

Module 2: Endocrine & Digestive System Multiple Choice Questions With Complete Solutions

mucosa the innermost layer of the alimentary canal, made of epithelial tissue pharynx food enters here AFTER the mouth esophagus muscular tube that leads to the stomach chief cells produce pepsinogen (in the stomach) protein what pepsinogen breaks down parietal cells produces HCl (in the stomach) chyme paste-like substance that leaves the stomach salivary gland produces amylase in the mouth cardio-esphogeal sphincter between the esophagus and stomach stomach organ of physical ...