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GINGIVA
DENSE FIBROUS TISSUE,COVERED BY MUCOUS MEMBRANE, THAT COVERS THE ALVEOLAR PROCESSES OF THE UPPER AND LOWER JAWS AND SURROUNDS THE NECK OF THE TEETH
DUODENAL GLAND
SMALL GLAND THAT OPENS INTO THE BASE OF INTESTINAL GLAND; SECRETES A MUCOID ALKALINE SUBSTANCE
TERMINAL SULCUS
V- SHAPED GROOVE ON THE SURFACE OF THE TONGUE AT THE POSTERIOR MARGIN
HEPATOCYTE
LIVER CELL
DECIDUOUS TOOTH
TOOTH OF THE FIRST SET OF TEETH, PRIMARY TOOTH
DESCENDING COLON
PART OF THE COLON EXTENDING FROM THE LEFT COLONIC FLEXURE TO THE SIGMOID COLON
HEPATIC CORD
PLATE OF LIVER CELLS THAT RADIATES AWAY FROM THE CENTREL VEIN OF A LIVER LOBULE
MESENTRY
DOUBLE LAYER OF PERITONEUM EXTENDING FROM THE ABDOMINAL VISCERA, CONVEYING TO IT IS VESSELS AND NERVES
ABSORPTIVE CELL
CELL ON THE SURFACE OF THE VILLI OF THE SMALL INTESTINES AND THE LUMINAL SURFACE OF THE LARGE INTESTINE THAT IS CHARACTERIZED BY HAVING MICROVILLI; SECRETES DIGESTIVE ENZYMES AND ABSORBS DIGESTED MATERIALS ON ITS FREE SURFACE
COMMON BILE DUCT
DUCT FORMED BY THE UNION OF THE COMMON HEPATIC AND CYSTIC DUCTS; IT EMPTIES INTO THE SMALL INTESTINES
GALL BLADDER
PEAR- SHAPED RECEPTACLE ON THE INFERIOR SURFACE OF THE LIVER; SERVES AS A STORAGE RESERVIOR FOR BILE
GASTRIC PIT
SMALL PIT IN THE MUCUS MEMBRANE OF THE STOMACH AT THE BOTTOM OF WHICH ARE THE MOUTHS OF THE GASTRIC GLANDS THAT SECRETE MUCUS, HYDROCHORLIC ACID, INTRINSIC FACTOR, PEPSINOGEN, AND HORMONES
INTESTINAL GLANDS
TUBLAR GLAND IN THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE OF THE SMALL AND LARGE INTESTINE
LIVER
LARGEST GLAND OF THE BODY, LYING IN THE UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT OF THE ABDOMEN, JUST INFERIOR TO THE DIAPHARGM; SECRETES BILE AND IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IN CARBOHYDRATE AND PROTEIN METABOLISM AND IN DETOCIFYING CHEMICALS
CEMENTUM
LAYER OF MODIFIED BONE COVERING THE DENTIN OF THE ROOT AND NECK OF A TOOTH; BLENDS WITH THE FIBERS OF PERIODONTAL MEMBRANE
ILEOCECAL VALVE
VALVE FORMED BY THE ILEOCECAL SPHINCTER BETWEEN THE ILEUM AND THE CECUM
CECUM
CUL-DE-SAC FORMING THE FIRST PART OF THE LARGE INTESTINE
INTRAMURAL PLEXUS
COMBINATION OF SUBMOCOSAL AND MYENTERIC PLEXUSES
GASTRIC INHIBITORY POLYPEPTIDE
HORMONE SECRETED BY THE DUODENUM THAT INHIBITS GASTRIC ACID SECRETIONS
GASTRIC GLAND
GLAND LOCATED IN THE MUCOSA OF THE FUNDUS AND BODY OF THE STOMACH
INSULIN
PROTEIN HORMONE SECRETED BY THE PANCREAS THAT INCREASES THE UPTAKE OF GLUCOSE AND AMINO ACIDS BY MOST TISSUES
LESSER DUODENAL PAPILLA
SITE OF THE OPENING OF THE ASSERORY PANCREATIC DUCT INTO THE DUODENUM
MICELLE
DROPLETS OF LIPID SURROUNDED BY BILE SALTS IN THE SMALL INTESTINES
PEPSINOGEN
PROENZYME FORMED AND SECRETED BY THE CHIEF CELLS OF THE GASTRIC MUCOSA; THE ACIDITY OF THE GASTRIC JUICE AND PEPSIN ITSELF CONVERTS PEPSINOGEN INTO PEPSIN
PERISTALIC WAVE
CONTRACTION IN A TUBE SUCH AS THE INTESTINE CHARACTERIZED BY A WAVE OF CONTRACTION IN SMOOTH MUSCLE PRECEDED BY A WAVE OF RELAXATION THAT MOVES ALONG THE TUBE
COMMON HEPATIC DUCT
PART OF THE BILLIARY DUCT SYSTEM THAT IS FORMED BY THE JOINING OF THE RIGHT AND LEFT HEPATIC DUCTS
GREATER OMENTUM
PERITONEAL FOLD PASSING FROM THE GREATER CURVATURE OF THE STOMACH TO THE TRANSVERSE COLON, HANGING LIKE AN APRON IN FRONT OF THE INTESTINES
CHIEF CELL
CELL OF THE PARATHYROID GLAND THAT SECRETES PARATHYRIOD HORMONE. CELL OF A GASTRIC GLAND THAT SECRETES PEPSINOGEN
JEJUNUM
SECOND PORTION OF THE SMALL INTESTINE; LOCATED BETWEEN THE DUODENUM AND THE ILEUM
PARIETAL CELL
GASTRIC GLAND CELL THAT SECRETES HYDROCHLORIC ACID
PEYER'S PATCH
LYMPH NODULE FOUND IN THE LOWER HALF OF THE SMALL INTESTINE AND THE APPENDIX
BRUSH BORDER
EPITHELIAL SURFACE CONSISTING OF MICROVILLI
PORTA
FISSURE ON THE INFERIOR SURFACE OF THE LIVER WHERE THE PORTAL VEIN, HEPATIC ARTERTY,HEPATIC NERVE PLEXUS, HEPATIC DUCTS, AND LYMPHATIC VESSELS ENTER AND EXIT THE LIVER
ALVEOLAR GLAND
ONE IN WHICH THE SECRETORY UNIT HAS A SACLIKEFORM AND AN OBVIOUS LUMEN
CYSTIC DUCT
DUCT LEADING FROM THE GALL BLADDER, JOINS THE COMMON HEPATIC DUCT TO FORM THE COMMON BILE DUCT
DUODENUM
FIRST DIVISION OF THE SMALL INTESTINE; CONNECTS TO THE STOMACH
ENTEROKINASE
INTESTINAL PROTEOLYTIC ENZYME THAT CONVERTS TRYPSINOGEN INTO TRYPSIN
LESSER OMENTUM
PERITONEAL FOLD PASSING FROM THE LIVER TO THE LESSER CURVATURE OF THE STOMACH AND TO THE UPPER BORDER OF THE DUODENUM FOR A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY 2CM BEYOND THE PYLORUS
MUCOSA
MUCOUS MEMBRANE CONSISTING OF EPITHELIUM AND LAMINA PROPIA. IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT THERE IS ALSO A LAYER OF SMOOTH MUSCLE
PORTAL TRIAD
BRANCHES OF THE PORTAL VEIN, HEPATIC ARTERY, AND HEPATIC DUCT BOUND TOGETHER IN THE CONNECTIVE TISSUE THAT DIVIDES THE LIVER INTO LOBULES
INTERCALATED DUCT
MINUTE DUCT OF GLANDS SUCH AS SALIVARY GLAND AND THE PANCREAS; LEADS TO THE INTERLOBULAR DUCTS
RECTUM
PORTION OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT THAT EXTENDS FROM THE SIGMOID COLON TO THE ANAL CANAL
PANCREATIC JUICE
EXTERNAL SECRETION OF THE PANCREAS; CLEAR, AKALINE FLUID CONTAINING SEVERAL ENZYMES
SALIVARY AMYLASE
ENZYME SECRETED IN SALIVA THAT BREAKS DOWN STARCH TO MALTOSE AND ISOMALTOSE
SEROSA
OUTERMOST COVERING OF AN ORGAN OR STRUCTURE THAT LIES IN A BODY CAVITY; SEE ALSO ADVENTITIA
ILEUM
THIRD PORTION OF THE SMALL INTESTINE, EXTENDING FROM THE JEJUNUM TO THE ILEOCECAL OPENING INTO THE LARGE INTESTINE; THE POSTERIOR INFERIOR BONE OF THE COXA
SIGMOID COLON
PART OF THE COLON BETWEEN THE DESCENDING COLON AND THE RECTUM
PARIETAL PERITONEUM
LAYER OF THE PERITONEUM LINING THE ABDOMINAL WALL
DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE
ENZYME THAT SPLITS DNA INTO ITS COMPONENT NUCLEOTIDES
DENTIN
BONY MATERIAL FORMING THE MASS OF THE TOOTH
BILE
FLUID SECRETED FROM THE LIVER INTO THE DUODENUM; CONSISTS OF BILE SALT, BILE PIGMENTS,BICARBONATE IONS, CHOLESTROL,FATS, FAT-SOLUBLE HORMONES, AND LECITHIN
ASCENDING COLON
PORTION OF THE COLON BETWEEN THE SMALL INTESTINE AND THE RIGHT COLIC FLEXURE
HEPATOPANCREATIC AMPULLAR SPHINCTER
SMOOTH MUSCLE SPHINCTER OF THE HEPATOPANCREATIC AMPULLA; SPHINCTER OF ODDI
EPIPLOIC APPENDAGE
ONE OF A NUMBER OF LITTLE PROCESSES OF THE PERITONEUM PROJECTING FROM THE SEROUS COAT OF THE LARGE INTESTINE EXCEPT THE RECTUM; THEY ARE GENERALLY DISTENDED WITH FAT
SIGMOID MESOCOLON
FOLD OF PERITONEUM ATTACHING THE SIGMOID COLON TO THE POSTERIOR ABDOMINAL WALL
FRENULUM
FOLD EXTENDING FROM THE FLOOR OF THE MOUTH TO THE MIDLINE OF THE UNDERSURFACE OF THE TONGUE
DENTAL ARCH
CURVED MAXILLARY OR MANDIBULAR ARCH IN WHICH THE TEETH ARE LOCATED
CHYLOMICRON
MICROSCOPIC PARTICLE OF LIPID SURROUNDED BY PROTEIN, OCCURING IN THE CHYLE AND IN THE BLOOD
HAUSTRA
SACS OF THE COLON, CAUSED BY CONTRACTION OF THE TAENIAE COLI, WHICH ARE SLIGHTLY SHORTER THAN THE GUT, SO THAT THE LATTER IS THROWN INTO POUCHES
FALCIFORM LIGAMENT
FOLD OF PERITONEUM EXTENDING TO THE SURFACE OF THE LIVER FROM THE DIAPHARGM AND ANTERIOR ABDOMINAL WALL
DIGESTIVE TRACT
MOUTH,OROPHARYNX,ESOPHAGUS, STOMACH,SMALL INTESTINE,LARGE INTESTINE.
GASTROCOLIC REFLEX
LOCAL REFLEX RESULTING IN MASS MOVEMENT OF THE CONTENTS OF THE COLON THAT OCCURS AFTER THE ENTRANCE OF FOOD INTO THE STOMACH
PEPTIDASE
AN ENZYME CAPABLE OF HYDROLYZING ONE OF THE PEPTIDE LINKS OF A PEPTIDE
SUBMUCOSAL PLEXUS
GANGLIATED PLEXUS OF UNMYELINATED NERVE FIBERS IN THE INTESTINAL SUBMUCOSA
TRANSVERSE COLON
PART OF THE COLON BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND LEFT COLIC FLEXURES
VESTIBULE
ANTERIOR PART OF THE NASAL CAVITY JUST INSIDE THE EXTERNAL NARES THAT IS ENCLOSED BY CARTILAGE; SPACE BETWEEN THE LIPS AND THE AVEOLAR PROCESSES AND TEETH; MIDDLE REGION OF THE INNER EAR CONTAINING THE URICLE AND SACCULE; SPACE BEHIND THE LABIA MINORA CONTAING THE OPENING OF THE VAGINA, URETHRA, AND VESTIBULAR GLANDS.
MUCOUS NECK CELL
ONE OF THE MUCOUS SECRETING CELLS IN THE NECK OF A GASTRIC GLAND
FUNDUS
" BOTTOM," OR ROUNDED END, OF A HOLLOW ORGAN, FOR EXAMPLE THE FUNDUS OF THE STOMACH OR UTERUS
CARDIAC REGION
REGION OF THE STOMACH NEAR THE OPENING OF THE ESOPHAGUS
CHOLECYSTOKININ
HORMONE LIBERATED BY THE UPPER INTESTINAL MUCOSA ON CONTACT WITH GASTRIC CONTENTS; STIMULATES THE CONTRACTIONS OF THE GALLBLADDER AND THE SECRETION OF PANCREATIC JUICE HIGH IN DIGESTIVE ENZYMES
BILE SALT
ORGANIC MATERIAL SECRETED BY THE LIVER THAT FUNCTIONS AS AN EMULSIFING AGENT
HYDROCHLORIC ACID
ACID OF GASTRIC JUICE
CORONARY LIGAMENT
PERITONEAL REFLECTION FROM THE LIVER TO THE DIAPHARGM AT THE MARGIS OF THE BARE AREA OF THE LIVER
INTRINSIC FACTOR
FACTORS SECRETED BY THE PARIETAL CELLS OF GASTRIC GLANDS AND REQUIRED FOR ADEQUETE ABSORPTION OF VITAMIN B 12
PYLORIC SPHINCTER
THICKENING OF THE CIRCULAR LAYER OF THE GASTRIC MUSCLATURE ENCIRCLING THE JUNCTION BETWEEN THE STOMACH AND DUODENUM
RUGAE
FOLD OR RIDGE; FOLD OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE OF THE STOMACH WHEN THE ORGAN IS CONTRACTED; TRANSVERSE RIDGE IN THE MUCOSA OF THE VAGINA
EXTERNAL ANL SPHINCTER
RING OF STRIATIED MUSCLAR FIBERS SURROUNDING THE ANUS
PANCREATIC DUCT
EXCRETORY DUCT OF THE PANCREAS THAT EXTENDS THROUGH THE GLAND FROM TAIL TO HEAD WHERE IT EMPTIES INTO THE DUODENUM AT THE GREATER DUODENAL PAPILLA
RIBONUCLEASE
ENZYME THAT SPLITS RNA INTO ITS COMPONENT NUCLEOTIDES
GASTROESPHAGEAL OPENING
OPENING OF THE ESOPHAGUS INTO THE STOMACH
SOFT PALATE
POSTERIOR MUSCLAR PORTION OF THE PALATE, FORMING AN INCOMPLETE SEPTUM BETWEEN THE MOUTH AND THE OROPHARYNX AND BETWEEN THE OROPHARYNX AND THE NASOPHARYNX
PEPSIN
PRINCIPAL DIGESTIVE ENZYME OF THE GASTRIC JUICE; FORMED FROM PEPSINOGEN; DIGEST PROTEINS INTO SMALLER PEPTIDE CHAINS
SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND
ONE OF TWO SALIVARY GLANDS IN THE NECK, LOCATED IN THE SPACE BOUNDED BY THE TWO BELLIES OF THE DIGASTRIC MUSCLE AND THE ANGLE OF THE MANDIBLE
HEPATOPANCREATIC AMPULLA
DIALATION WITHIN THE MAJOR DUODENAL PAPILLA THAT NORMALLY RECEIVES BOTH THE COMMON BILE DUCT AND THE MAIN PANCREATIC DUCT
PERISTALIC WAVE
CONTRACTION IN A TUBE SUCH AS THE INTESTINE CHARACTERIZED BY A WAVE OF CONTRACTION IN SMOOTH MUSCLE PRECEDED BY A WAVE OF RELAXATION THAT MOVES ALONG THE TUBE
PLICAE CIRCULARES
NUMEROUS FOLDS OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE IN THE SMALL INTESTINES
APICAL FORAMEN
OPENING AT THE APEX OF THE ROOT OF A TOOTH THAT GIVES PASSAGE TO THE NERVE AND BLOOD VESSELS
SUBMUCOSA
LAYER OF TISSUE BENEATH A MUCOUS MEMBRANE
SECRETIN
HORMONE FORMED BY THE EPITHEAL CELLS OF THE DUODENUM; STIMULATES SECRETION OF PANCREATIC JUICE HIGH IN BICARBONATE IONS
VILLUS
PROJECTIONS OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE OF THE INTESTINE; THEY ARE LEAF-SHAPED IN THE DUODENUM AND BECOME SHORTER MOE FINGER-LIKE AND SPARSER IN THE ILEUM
FLATUS
GAS OR AIR IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT THAT MAY BE EXPELLED THROUGH THE ANUS
SMALL INTESTINE
PORTION OF THE DIGESTIVE TUBE BETWEEN THE STOMACH AND THE CECUM CONSIST OF DUODENUM, JEJUNUM, AND ILEUM
DEGLUTITION
ACT OF SWALLOWING
MUSCULARIS
MUSCLAR COAT OF A HOLLOW ORGAN OR TUBULAR STRUCTURE
CHYMOTRYPSIN
PROTEOLYTIC ENZYME FORMED IN THE SMALL INTESTINE FROM PANCREATIC PRECURSOR CHYMOTRYPSINOGEN
HEPATIC SINUSOID
TERMINAL BLOOD VESSEL HAVING IRREGULAR AND LARGER CALIBER THAN ORDINARY CAPILLARY WITHIN THE LIVER LOBULE
ILEOCECAL SPHINCTER
THICKENING OF CIRCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE BETWEEN THE ILEUM AND THE CECUM FORMING THE ILEOCECAL VALVE
MYENTERIC PLEXUS
PLEXUS OF UNMYLENATED FIBERS AND POSTGANGLOINIC AUTONOMIC CELL BODIES LYING IN THE MUSCLAR COAT OF THE ESOPHAGUS, STOMACH, INTESTINE; COMMUNICATES WITH THE SUBMUCOSAL PLEXUS
PULP
THE SOFT TISSUE WITHIN THE PULP CAVITY, CONSISTING OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE CONTAING BLOOD VESSELS,NERVES, AND LYMPHATICS
MASS MOVEMENT
FORCIBLE PERSTALIC MOVEMENT OF SHORT DURATIONS, OCCURING ONLY THREE OR FOUR TIMES A DAY, WHICH MOVES THE CONTENTS OF THE LARGE INTESTINES
LIST THE 8 FUNCTIONS OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
1-INGESTION
2-MASTICATION
3-SECRETION
3-PROPULSION
4-MIXING
5-SECRETION
6-DIGESTION
7-ABSORPTION
8-ELIMINATION
LIST THE 7 PARTS OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
1-ORAL CAVITY
2-PHARYNX
3- ESOPHAGUS
4-STOMACH
5-SMALL INTESTINE
6- LARGE INTESTINE
7-ANUS
LIST THE FOUR ASSECORY ORGANS OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
1-SALIVARY GLANDS
2-LIVER
3-GALLBLADDER
4- PANCREAS
LIST THE FOUR TUNICAS OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
1-MUCOSA
2-SUBMUCOSA
3-MUSCULARIS
4-SEROSA
DIGESTION
THE BREAKDOWN OF ORGANIC MOLECULES INTO THEIR COMPONENT PARTS