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function of digestive processes food, extracts nutrients and eliminates
system residue

the physical breakdown of mechanical digestion
food into smaller parts

A series of hydrolysis chemical digestion
reactions that break
dietary macromolecules
into their monomers

teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gallbladder,
6 accessory organs
pancreas

what makes up the gi tract stomach and intestines

mechanical digestion grinding of teeth and churning of stomach and small
occurs where intestine

chemical digestion occurs digestive enzymes produced by salivary glands,
where stomach, pancreas, and small intestine

most absorption occurs small intestine
where

, small mucosal projections villi
that increase surface area
for absorption

permanent transverse circular folds
folds in the intestinal lining

four layers of the digestive mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, serosa
tract (from inner to outer)

the submucosal plexus is in the submucosa layer
located ____

the myenteric plexus is muscularis externa
located between two
layers of the

function of submucosal control glandular secretions of mucosa and
plexus movement of muscularis mucosae

function of myenteric controls peristalsis and other contractions of
plexus muscularis externa

what are the three salivary parotid, submandibular, sublingual
glands

begins starch and fat digestion, inhibits bacterial
function of saliva growth, binds food together to form bolus, dissolves
molecules to stimulate taste buds

two enzymes in the saliva salivary amylase and lingual lipase

begins starch digestion and breaks down
salivary amylase function
polysaccharides

activated by stomach acid and digests fat after food is
lingual lipase function
swallowed and breaks down triglycerides

what is deglutination swallowing

first phase of swallowing oral phase (voluntary control)

second phase of pharyngeal phase (involuntary control)
swallowing
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