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#1 The pharynx allows what to the esophagus
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Food and fluids
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#2 The pharynx allows what to the trachea
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Air
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#3 The pharynx has what 2 skeletal muscle layers
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Inner longitudinal and outer pharyngeal constrictors
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#4 What is the muscular tube goes from the larngopharynx to the stomach, pierces the diaphragm and joins the stomach at the cardiac orfice
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Esophagus
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#5 What happens to the esophagus when its empty
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It folds longitudinally and flattens
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#6 What helps move the bolus through the esophagus
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Glands secreting mucus
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#7 The esophagus changes from___to____
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Skeletal (superiorly), smooth muscle (inferiorly)
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#8 What is mechanical digetion
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Chewing
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#9 What initiates propulsion
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Swallowing
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#10 What does salivary amylase do
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Chemical breakdown of starch
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#11 When the bolus is forced into the oropharynx this is called what
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Buccal Phase
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#12 True or False: The buccal phase is unconscious control
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False
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#13 The pharyngeal is esophageal is controlled by what
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Medulla and lower pons
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#14 How does move through the pharnyx to the esophagus
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Peristalsis
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#15 When is food converted into chyme
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Stomach
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#16 How is the stomach supplied the nerves
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Sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers
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#17 The muscularis of the stomach allows what to happen in the stomach
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Churn, mix, and pummel food physically
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#18 What is epithelial lining of stomach consist of
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Goblet cells that produce a coat of alkaline mucus
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#19 The gastric pits contain gastic glands that secrete what
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Gastric juice, mucus, and gastrin
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#20 What secretes acid mucus in the stomach
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Mucous neck cell
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#21 Parietal cells secrete what
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HCl and intrinsic factor
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#22 What does chief cells produce
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Pepsinogen
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#23 What does enterendocrine cells secrete
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Endorphins, serotonin, intrinic factor (Local control of that organ)
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#24 What does the stomach mucosal barrier consist of
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Thick coat of bicarbonate rich mucus, epithelial cells that join tight junctions and gastric glands that have cell impermeable to HCl
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#25 What delivers chyme to the small intestine
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Stomach
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#26 How does the stomach digest protein
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Enzymatically with pepsin
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#27 What is required for absorption of Vit. B 12
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Intrinsic Factor
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#28 Where is vitamin B 12 absorbed
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Ileum
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#29 What regulates the release of gastric juice
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Neural and hormonal mechanisms
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#30 What are the 3 phases of stimulatory and inhibitory events
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Cephalic (reflex), gastric, and intestinal
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#31 What are the excitatory events of the cephalic phase
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Sight or thought of food and stimulation of taste or smell
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#32 Inhibitory events of the cephalic phase are what
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loss of appetite or depression abd decrease in stimulation of parasympathetic division
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#33 What are the excitatory events of the gastric phase
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Stomach distension, activation of stretch receptors and chemoreceptors and release of gastrin into blood
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#34 What are the inhibitory events of the gastric phase
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Lower pH than 2, emotional upset overrides parasympathetic
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#35 What are the exitatory events of the intestinal phase
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lower pH, partially digested food enters duodenum, encourage gastric juice activity
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#36 What are the inhibitory events of the instestinal phase
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Distension of duodenum, presence of fatty, acidic or hypertonic chyme and/or irritants, closes pyloric sphincter
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#37 What is plasticity of the stomach
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Ability for the stomach to stretch and contract to the size of meal ingested to keep the same pressure
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#38 Where does the most peristalsis and mixing occur
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Near the Pylorus
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#39 True or False: The chyme is delivered in small amounts to the duodenum
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True
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#40 Why is chyme forced backward into the stomach
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Further mixing
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#41 What regulates gastric emptying
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Neural enterogastric reflex and hormonal mechanisms
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#42 True or False: Neural and hormonal allow more gastric secretion and duodenal filling
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False, they inhibit those activities
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#43 True or False carbohydrate cyhme moves quickly through the duodenum
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True
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#44 Fat-laden chyme is digested more__ causing food to remain in the stomach longer
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Slowly
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#45 How many subdivisions are there of the small instestine? What are they?
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3, duodenum, jejunum, and ileum
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#46 Where do the bile and pancreatic duct join
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Hepatopancreatic ampulla
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#47 What controls the bile and pancreatic ducts
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Sphincter of Oddi
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#48 Where does ileum join the large intestine
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Ileocecal valve
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#49 What is the main function of the small instestine
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Absorbtion
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#50 Pancreas is very corrosive and breaksdown what
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All food types
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#51 The small instestine epithelium of the mucosa is made up of what
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Absorptive and goblet cells, enteroendocrine, and T cells
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#52 The Peyer's patches are found in the ileum and prevent what
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Back spread of bacteria from Lg. instestine
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#53 Brunner's glands secrete what in the duodenum
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Alkaline mucus to neutralize chyme
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#54 Inestinal juice is made up of what
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Largely water, enzyme poor, and mucus
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#55 What is the largest gland
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Liver
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#56 How many lobes does the liver have? What are they?
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4, right, left, caudate, quadrate
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#57 What does falciform ligament separate
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Right and left lobe
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#58 On the liver the ligamentum teres has the remnant of what
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Fetal umbilical vein
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#59 What anchors the liver to the stomach
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Lesser Omentum
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#60 Where do the hepatic blood vessels enter the liver
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Porta hepatis
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#61 Which 2 ducts form the bile duct
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Common hepatic and cystic ducts
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#62 The central vein on the liver is where what occurs
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Drainage
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#63 Where are the portal triads found
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At each of the six corners of each liver lobule
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#64 What are 3 things consist of portal triad
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Bile duct, hepatic artery, and hepatic portal vein
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#65 What does the hepatic artery supply to the liver
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Oxygen rich blood
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#66 What carries venous blood with nutrients from the digestive viscera to the liver
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Hepatic portal vein
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#67 What is significant about liver sinusoids
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Enlarged, leaky capillaries
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#68 Kupffer cells are ___ ____ found in liver sinusoids
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Hepatic macrophages
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#69 What includes production of bile, processing bloodborne nutrients, storage of fat soluble vits, and detoxification
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Hepatocyte function
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#70 What is the composition of the bile
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Yellow-green alkaline solution
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#71 What is a function of bile
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Emulsify fat
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#72 What is the chief pigment of bile
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Bilirubin, a waste product of heme
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#73 What does the gallbladder store
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Bile by absorbing its water and ions
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#74 How does the gallbladder release bile
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Cystic duct, which flows into the bile duct
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#75 What does the cholecystokinin (CCK) cause
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Gallbladder to contract and hepatopancreatic sphincter to relax
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