buccal surface - Answers faces the cheek
lingual surface - Answers faces the tounge
labial surface - Answers faces the lips
gums - Answers "the fleshy tissue surrounding the sockets of the teeth"
4 functions of the digestive system - Answers 1.Ingestion
2. digestion
3. absorption
4. elimination
ingested - Answers "complex food material taken into the mouth is"
digested - Answers "broken down, mechanically and chemically, as it travels through the
gastrointestinal tract."
absorption - Answers "nutrients from digested food pass through the lining cells or epithelium
of the small intestine and into the bloodstream."
elimination - Answers "solid waste materials that cannot be absorbed into the bloodstream."
or/o - Answers pertaining to the mouth (combining form)
tonsils - Answers "filters to protect the body from the invasion of microorganisms and produce
lymphocytes, disease-fighting white blood cells."
pharynx or throat - Answers "muscular tube, about 5 inches long, lined with a mucous
membrane."
deglutition - Answers swallowing
...food cannot enter and become lodged there - Answers "When deglutition occurs, a
cartilaginous flap of tissue, the epiglottis, covers the trachea so that ...."
peristalsis - Answers "the involuntary, progressive, rhythmic contraction of muscles in the wall
of the gastrointestinal organs propelling a bolus (mass of food) down toward the stomach."
hydrochloric acid - Answers "is secreted to digest protein and kill any bacteria remaining in food.
in stomach"
"fundus (upper portion), body (middle section), and antrum (lower portion)." - Answers The three
main parts of the stomach
, "sphincter" - Answers "Rings of muscle in stomach that control the openings into and leading
out of the stomach. They prevent food from regurgitating."
duodenum - Answers The first section, the ______________. Enzymes and bile help digest food
before it passes into the second part of the small intestine
jejunum - Answers second part of the small intestine
ileum - Answers The ____________ attaches to the first part of the large intestine
"the cecum, the colon, and the rectum." - Answers Three parts if the small intestine
cecum - Answers "a pouch on the right side that connects to the ileum at the ileocecal valve
(sphincter)."
appendix - Answers "hangs from the cecum and has no clear function and can become inflamed
and infected when clogged or blocked."
liver - Answers "located in the right upper quadrant (RUQ) of the abdomen, manufactures a thick,
orange-black, sometimes greenish, fluid called bile."
gallbladder - Answers "a pear-shaped sac under the liver, which stores and concentrates the bile
for later use."
pancreas - Answers "secretes _____________ juices (enzymes) that are released into the
__________ duct"
an/o - Answers anus (c.f.)
append/o
appendic/o - Answers appendix (c.f.)
bucc/o - Answers cheek (c.f.)
cec/o - Answers cecum (c.f.)
cheil/o - Answers lip (c.f.)
cholecysto - Answers gallbladder (c.f.)
choleoch/o - Answers common bile duct (c.f.)
col/o - Answers colon (c.f.)
col - Answers (c.
dent/i