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Question:
1. What are the parts of the small intestine?
Answer:
1. Duodenum
2. Jejunum
3. Ileum

Question:
2. What is the function of the Duodenum?
Answer:
It receives Chyme. It is where your gallbladder dumps bile via bile ducts.

Question:
3. What is the importance of the small intestine?
Answer:
Site of nutrient absorption.

Question:
4. What is the function of the Ileum
Answer:
It's an extension to make sure whatever nutrients were not absorbed have somewhere to go.

Question:
5. What is the direction of the large intestine?
Answer:
Ascending colon, transverse colon, Desecending colon, sigmoid colon, Rectum. Anus.

Question:
6. Where does digestion start?
Answer:
starts psychologically before food enters the mouth

Question:
7. What is the enzyme that digests/breaks down glucose?
Answer:
Amylase

Question:
8. What is the mechanical part of chewing? What is CN for chewing? CN for swallowing?

, Answer:
-Mastication
-CN#5 Trigeminal= chewing
-CN#9 Glossopharyngeal= swallowing

Question:
9. What structure is involved in swallowing after mastication?
Answer:
Esophagus

Question:
10. What sphincter at the beginning of the stomach prevents us from having heart burn(Dyspepsia)?
Answer:
-LES= lower esphageal sphincter or Cardiac Sphincter.

Question:
11. When you swallow, what substance is released into the stomach to break down food?
Answer:
Hydrochloric Acid (HCL acid)

Question:
12. What substance breaks down protein in the stomach?
Answer:
Pepsin

Question:
13. What is the mechanical part of the stomach?
Answer:
Churning

Question:
14. What is the name of the substance that the stomach makes from digestion?
Answer:
Chyme passes through the pyloric sphincter and dups into the duodenum

Question:
15. What are the 2 additional enzymes that the pancreas secretes?
Answer:
-Lipase (fats)
-pepsidase (proteins) (sometimes called trypsin)

Question:
16. Lipase calls on what to help break down large amounts of fat?
Answer:
Gallbladder for the secretion of bile helps break down large amounts of fat.

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