OMSA RECERTIFICATION COMPLETE
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● Accessory organs
Answer: organs that function to assist with the digestive process are the
salivary glands, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas
●● Four layers of the GI tract
Answer: mucosa, submucosa, muscle, serosa
●● Which nervous system controls the alimentary canal
Answer: Autonomic nervous system
●● Which nervous system causes increase in digestive activity
Answer: parasympathetic nervous system
●● What does the sympathetic nervous system control
Answer: sphincter muscles and movement within the alimentary canal.
This also assists with an inhibitory effect that provides the ability to
remain continent by sphincter control
,●● Sphincter at end of esophagus to stomach
Answer: LES- Lower esophageal sphincter
●● Four regions of the stomach
Answer: Cardia, fundus, body, and pyloric
●● Sphincter from stomach to small intestine
Answer: pyloric sphincter
●● First section past esophagus in stomach
Answer: Cardia
●● Area in stomach where food is stored temporarily
Answer: Fundus
●● The main region in the stomach
Answer: The body
●● The area of stomach with large muscle that controls emptying into
small intestine
Answer: Pyloric region
,●● What cells secrete pepsinogen?
Answer: Chief cells of the stomach
●● What cells secrete hydrochloric acid in stomach?
Answer: Parietal cells
●● What mixes to form Pepsin in the stomach?
Answer: Pepsinogen and hydrochloric acid
●● How much gastic fluid is produced by the stomach daily?
Answer: 2-3L
●● Measurements of small intestines
Answer: 18-20 feet, 2.5 cm in diameter
●● Majority of what occurs in small intestines
Answer: Chemical digestion, nutrient absorption
●● sections of small intestine
Answer: duodenum, jejunum, ileum
●● What increases surface area of small intestines
, Answer: Intestinal villi
●● What is the purpose of intestinal villi?
Answer: increasing surface area to absorb more nutrients
●● The shortest section of the small intestine.
Answer: duodenum
●● The longest section of the small intestines
Answer: Ileum
●● Section of small intestine with only receptors for Vit B12 and bile
salts
Answer: Ileum
●● Junction from small intestine and large intestines
Answer: Ileocecal valve
●● Two movements of the small intestines
Answer: Mixing and propulsive movement
●● Mixing movement of small intestines
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● Accessory organs
Answer: organs that function to assist with the digestive process are the
salivary glands, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas
●● Four layers of the GI tract
Answer: mucosa, submucosa, muscle, serosa
●● Which nervous system controls the alimentary canal
Answer: Autonomic nervous system
●● Which nervous system causes increase in digestive activity
Answer: parasympathetic nervous system
●● What does the sympathetic nervous system control
Answer: sphincter muscles and movement within the alimentary canal.
This also assists with an inhibitory effect that provides the ability to
remain continent by sphincter control
,●● Sphincter at end of esophagus to stomach
Answer: LES- Lower esophageal sphincter
●● Four regions of the stomach
Answer: Cardia, fundus, body, and pyloric
●● Sphincter from stomach to small intestine
Answer: pyloric sphincter
●● First section past esophagus in stomach
Answer: Cardia
●● Area in stomach where food is stored temporarily
Answer: Fundus
●● The main region in the stomach
Answer: The body
●● The area of stomach with large muscle that controls emptying into
small intestine
Answer: Pyloric region
,●● What cells secrete pepsinogen?
Answer: Chief cells of the stomach
●● What cells secrete hydrochloric acid in stomach?
Answer: Parietal cells
●● What mixes to form Pepsin in the stomach?
Answer: Pepsinogen and hydrochloric acid
●● How much gastic fluid is produced by the stomach daily?
Answer: 2-3L
●● Measurements of small intestines
Answer: 18-20 feet, 2.5 cm in diameter
●● Majority of what occurs in small intestines
Answer: Chemical digestion, nutrient absorption
●● sections of small intestine
Answer: duodenum, jejunum, ileum
●● What increases surface area of small intestines
, Answer: Intestinal villi
●● What is the purpose of intestinal villi?
Answer: increasing surface area to absorb more nutrients
●● The shortest section of the small intestine.
Answer: duodenum
●● The longest section of the small intestines
Answer: Ileum
●● Section of small intestine with only receptors for Vit B12 and bile
salts
Answer: Ileum
●● Junction from small intestine and large intestines
Answer: Ileocecal valve
●● Two movements of the small intestines
Answer: Mixing and propulsive movement
●● Mixing movement of small intestines
