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Flashcards by Beatriz Cánovas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Beatriz Cánovas
about 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| It is where digestion starts. It contains the teeth and the tongue. | Mouth |
| They are in the mouth and cut and crush the food to make it smaller. | Teeth |
| It is in the mouth and mixes the food with saliva. | Tongue |
| They produce saliva. | Salivary glands |
| It connects the mouth to the esophagus. | Pharynx |
| It is a long and flexible tube that contracts and relaxes to get food from the pharynx to the stomach. | Esophagus |
| It is a bag-shaped organ that produces gastric juices to break down food into nutrients. | Stomach |
| It is a long, thin tube that produces intestinal juices. It is where the absorption of nutrients takes place. | Small intestine |
| They are the three parts in the small intestine. | Duodenum, illeum and jejunum |
| It is a thick tube that absorbs water and produces feces with waste substances. | Large intestine |
| They are the tree parts in the large intestine. | Colon, rectum and anus |
| It is a gland that produces bile. | Liver |
| It stores the bile. | Gall bladder |
| It produces pancreatic juice. | Pancreas |
| It is a soft ball formed when food is mixed with saliva in the mouth. | Bolus |
| It is a thick paste formed when the bolus is mixed with gastric juices in the stomach. | Chyme |
| It is a thin paste formed when the chyme is mixed with pancreatic juice, intestinal juice and bile in the small intestine. | Chyle |
| They are waste substances remaining after digestion and absorption. They are expelled through the anus. | Feces |
| It is a process by which the food is broken down into nutrients. | Digestion |
| It is a process by which the nutrients go pass from the digestive system into the blood. | Absorption |
| It is a process by which waste substances are expelled from the body. | Elimination |
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