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Digestion Tract –
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Also “alimentary tract” and “gastrointestinal tract”
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Tract –
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Non-sterile mucus membrane. Sometimes considered the “outside” of the body.
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Peristalsis –
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Moving water through tract with smooth muscle
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Segmentation –
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Mixing
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Bolus –
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Balls of food for swallowing
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Chyme –
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Completely uniformly mixed food
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Hepatocyte –
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liver cell
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Pharynx –
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Back of throat, shared opening
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Epiglottis –
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Elastic cartilage. Swallowing muscles cause the epiglottis to close. Very sensitive nerve endings around epiglottis cause tearing, coughing, vomiting.
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Sphincter –
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Circular muscle
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Lower Esophageal Sphincter –
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(“cardiac sphincter”). Controls esophagus -> stomach opening
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Pyloric sphincter –
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Controls stomach -> small intestine
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Mucosae –
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Secretory and absorptive layer. Innermost. Composed of: Muscularis mucosa, lamina propria, and simple columnar epithelial tissue.
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Muscularis mucosa –
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Controls folds in the small intestines’ epithelial tissue.
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Lamina Propria –
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Areolar connective tissue. Supports epithelial tissues. Has lots of while blood cells.
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Muscularis Externa –
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Layer composed of at least two muscle layers. Smooth muscle that runs both longitudinally and circularly
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Submucosa –
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Dense connective tissue layer containing blood vessels, lymph nodes, and nerves. Make mucus.
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Mesentery –
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Folds in the peritoneum that attach to the small intestine and part of the large intestine on the posterior abdominal wall. Contains blood and lymph nodes
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Lesser Omentum –
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Connects the liver and the stomach.
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Greater Omentum –
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Hangs from the stomach over the intestines like an apron.
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Hepatic Portal System –
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Blood leaving stomach and intestines first pass through liver via this
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Mastication –
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Teeth chewing
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Rugae –
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Folds in the stomach before it stretches
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3 sections of the small intestines –
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Duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
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Plicae –
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Larges folds of the small intestine that contain villi, which contains microvilli.
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Bile –
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Emulsifies fat [mechanical]. Contains bile salts. Stored in the gall bladder.
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Hepatocytes –
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Liver cells. Produces bile, stores glycogen, stories vitamins, removes NH3.
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Ileocecal valve –
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leads into the cecum
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Digestion Process:
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1) Ingestion// 2) Propulsion// 3) Mechanical Digestion// 4) Chemical Digestion//
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The 4 Layers of the GI Tract
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1) Serosa (visceral peritoneum)// 2) Muscularis Externa (smooth muscle)// 3) Submucosa// 4) Mucosae
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Location: Mouth
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Function: Ingestion.
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Location: Mouth
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Function: Teeth chew [mechanical digestion].
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Location: Mouth
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Function: Saliva (forms bolus, includes amylase [chemical], includes lysozyme [damages bacteria cell walls]. Result of parasympathetic fibers from facial (VII) and glossopharyngeal (IX)
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Location: Mouth
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Function: Three directions of muscles churn food into chyme [Mechanical]
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Location: Stomach
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Function: Primary functions of the stomach is mechanical digestion. Primary site of mechanical digestion is stomach
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Location: Stomach
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Function: Hydrochloric acid: Kills most bacteria, chops pepsinogen into pepsin
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Location: Stomach
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Function: Pepsin breaks down protein [chemical]
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Location: Stomach
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Function: Leaves with a pH of 2
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function: About 12 fingers long
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function:
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function:
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function:
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function: Curved
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function: Where most chemical digestion occurs [chemical].
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function: Require a pH of 8: results in fatty acids, glucose, and amino acids.
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function: Pancreas delivers bicarbonate to the duodenum which neutralizes the chyme so the enzymes can work
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function: Liver produces bile to emulsify fat [mechanical]
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Location: Small intestine – Duodenum
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Function: Absorption of most of the nutrients
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Location: Small intestine - Jejunum and Ileum
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Absorption continues
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Location: Small intestine - Jejunum and Ileum
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Microvilli increase the surface area. Each villus has many microvcillus (simple columnar)
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Location: Small intestine - Jejunum and Ileum
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Nutrients pass through or between simple columnar cells, inter the bloodstream for detox and modification (fatty acids ->cholesterol).
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Location: Small intestine - Jejunum and Ileum
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Hepatic portal vein brings absorptions to liver, then it goes out hepatic vein and to the vena cava.
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Location: Small intestine - Jejunum and Ileum
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Peristalsis moves chyme along
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Location: Small intestine - Jejunum and Ileum
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Segmentation continues mixing and ensuring absorption
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Location: Small intestine - Jejunum and Ileum
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Ileocecal valve is a sphincter connecting small intestine with large intestine
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Location: Large intestines – Appendix, cecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, and rectum
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Function: Primary job: absorb water.
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Location: Large intestines – Appendix, cecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, and rectum
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Function: Over 700 species of bacteria normally live here
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Name the types of Aircraft used by the Seabees.
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C-130 Hercules- ACL 25k lbs
C-141 Starlifter- ACL 50k lbs C-17 Globemaster- ACL 90k lbs-NOT USED C-5 Galaxy - ACL 150k lbs |
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Amylase breaks starch into...
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simple sugars
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Stomach has ...
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circular muscles, longitudinal muscles, and oblique muscles
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Parietal cells in the stomach (in the crevices of the stomach) produce...
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HCL.
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Goblet cells –
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make mucous to protect form HCL.
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The spleen is a reservoir for _________ and part of the immune system
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blood
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-ogen
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– inactive
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____ cells make mucus in the gastric pit
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goblet
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_____ cells make pepsinogen in the gastric pit
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chief
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_____ cells make HCL gastric pit
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parietal
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Pancreas delivers enzymes into the duodenum:
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Lipase, amylase, tryposin
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Lipase: Lipids ->
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fatty acids
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Amylase: Carbohydrates ->
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glucose
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Tryposin (proteases): proteins ->
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amino acids
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Anything absorbed from stomach and intestines goes to ______ where it is ______
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liver…detoxed
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Bile is stored and concentrated in the
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gall bladder
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Large intestines is: _________, ascending colon, _________ descending colon _________, and rectum
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cecum…transverse colon…sigmoid colon
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Three sets of salivary glands:
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Paratoid, sublingual, and sumandibal.
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Salivary glands: Controlled parasympatheticly by _________ nerve.
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Facial
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_________ trunk branches off aorta
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celiac
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_________/_________ arteries supply the small and larges intestines
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Superior…inferior
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________ chemically digests protein
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pepsin
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HCL cleaves ________ into pepsin
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pepsinogen
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Superior __________ artery brings blood. Leaving blood goes out via _________ portal vein
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mesenteric…hepatic
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Frenulum –
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Anchors tongue to bottom of mouth. Can be snipped of it’s too short
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Palate –
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Roof of the mouth.
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Palate, Hard –
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Oalatine and maxillary
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Palate, Soft –
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Muscles and connective tissues at the back of the throat
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Teeth –
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2 baby teeth, then 32 adult teeth. Incisors, then canines (has the thickest enamel), premolars, molars, wisdom teeth. Served by the trigeminal (V)
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Red blood cells –
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Heavier, makes up ~45% of a blood sample
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White blood cells:
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<1%. Buffy coat. WBC and platelets
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Plasma –
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Mostly water. Includes clotting factors, albumin (for maintaining blood pressure) hormones, glucose, fatty acids, amino acids). ~55%
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Hematocrit –
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portion of blood that is occupied by cells
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A
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Has flags on it called “A", Anti-B
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B
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Has flags on it called “B", Anti-A
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AB
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Has both A and B flags, neither (universal recipitant)
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O
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Has no flags, Anti-A, anti-B (universal donor)
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Rh Factor is a third irritating ______
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antigen
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Rh presence means the person is....
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positive
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No Rh means the person is...
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negative (however, antibodies to Rh are not normally present unless there's sensitization)
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Leukocytes –
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“White Blood cells”. Fights infection and cancer. Can follow chemical trail given off by pathogens or damaged cells.
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Phagocytes –
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When a white blood cell becomes a cell eater
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Diapedesis –
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when white blood cells become like amoebas. Puts out pseudo pods and squeezes between endothelial cells to move into tissue.
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Endothelial Cells –
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Simple squamous epithelial cells lining capillaries
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Anitgens –
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Potential irritants. Can cause an immune response
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Erythrocytes –
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red blood cells
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Anemic –
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Too few red blood cells. Less than ~35%
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Rugae –
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Smooth muscle in the stomach that allows expansion
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Three directions of smooth muscle in the stomach:
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longitudinal, oblique, and circular
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Fundus –
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Top of the stomach
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Gastrin –
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Another hormonal product of the stomach
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Rennin cells –
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Makes rennin enzyme to digest breast milk in infants
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Intrinsic Factor –
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Required for b12 absorption (b12 is required for RBC production)
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Pernicious anemia -
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Anemia caused by a deficit in B12
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