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Mouth
Breaks food apart through teeth, moistens and lubricates with saliva; food formed into bolus.
Salivary glands
Secrete saliva to moisten and lubricate food. Parotid-both sides of face, slightly below ear; submandibular -floor of mouth; sublingual - below tongue.
Teeth
Organ of mastication.
Pharynx
Common passageway for respiration and digestion; muscular constrictions move bolus into esophagus.
Esophagus
Moves food by peristalsis down esophagus into stomach.
Stomach
Reduces food to a digestible state, converts food to a semiliquid form.
Small Intestine
Digests and absorbs food, nutrients absorbed into tiny capillaries and lymph vessels in walls of small intestine & transmitted to body cells by circulatory system. (21 feet, dia 1". Duodenum=1st 1 ft; Jejunum=next 8 ft; Ileum-remaining 12 ft.
Large intestine.
Removes water from fecal material, stores and then eliminates waste from body via rectum and anus. 5 ft long, dia=2.5 ". Divided into cecum (3 inch long pouch with appendix attached), colon (ascending, transverse, descending, sigmoid), rectum, and anal canal.
Liver
Changes glucose to glycogen and stores it until needed; changes glycogen back to glucose; desatruates fats; assists in protein catabolism, manufactures bile, fibrinogen, prothrombin, heparin, and blood proteins; stores vitamins; produces heat; detoxifies substances.
Gallbladder
Stores & concentrates bile.
Pancreas
Secretes pancreatic juice into small intestine, contains cells that produce digestive enzymes, secretes insulin and glucagon.