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22 Cards in this Set
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1st part of the small intestines adds enzymes to your food
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duodenum
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The “food tube”. This is the tube that goes from your mouth to your stomach.
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Esophagus
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The wave-like muscle contractions along the digestive system.
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Peristalsis
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A flap of skin that covers your windpipe to prevent food and water from entering your lungs.
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Epiglottis
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In the _____ the air and food pathways cross.
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Pharynx
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A ring like valve consisting of muscles that can close off a tube like a drawstring.
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Sphincter
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What your food leaves the stomach as.
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chyme
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The acid found in your stomach
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Hydrochloric acid
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The enzyme that the acid in ur stomach activates
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Pepsin
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A fluid that protects your stomach lining
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Mucus
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A part of your body that is being constantly digested is able to grow back.
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Stomach lining
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The shpincter at the end of the stomach
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Pyloric valve
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They Slowly push food through the pyloric valve
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Peristalsis waves
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the first part of the intestine that adds more enzymes to the food
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the duodenum
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is the forceful expulsion of contents of the stomach and often, the proximal small intestine. It is a manifestation of a large number of conditions, many of which are not primary disorders of the gastrointestinal tract
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Vomiting
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small projection in the small intestine
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villi
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Even smaller projection in your intestines.
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Micro-villi
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The waste product that is left over after your body processes it.
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Feces
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Where the feces gets collected.
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Rectum
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The exit from the body for waste products.
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Anus
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Gas that leaves the body either through your mouth or anus.
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Flatuence
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The body part that takes the water out of the food,
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Colon/large intestine
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