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12 Cards in this Set
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Tongue
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Moves Food Around
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Esophagus
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Passageway for food between mouth and stomach
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Liver
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Produces digestive juice called bile
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Gallbladder
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Stores biles until needed for digestion
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Appendix
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An organ that no longer has a function in your body
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Anus
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Lowest part of large instestine-solid waste held until released from the body.
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Villi
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Lines the inside of the walls of the small intestine
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Salivary Glands
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Secretes juices into the mouth
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Stomach
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Stores food while enzymes break down food for further digestion.
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Pancreas
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Produces pancreaticjuices to further break down food in digestion.
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Small intestines
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Nutrients for the body are absorbed and moved into blood stream. Here the process of digestion is completed.
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Large Intestines
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Absorbs water, leaving more solid material which body cannot use. Indigestible material is stored for approximately 24-30 hours before leaving body.
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