Chapter 17 Connect

Once food is mixed w gastric juice it is called

Chyme

The right and left hepatic ducts converge to form the _____ hepatic duct

Common

Th digestive organ that runs up the right side of the abdominal cavity, then across the top and down the left side before entering the pelvic cavity is the

Large intestine

The oral cavity functions in

Mastication, speech, taste and swallowing

2 main components of digestion

Mechanical and chemical

What are functions of motor movements in the alimentary canal

Move the contents along the tract, mix the contents with fluids

The hormone that stimulates the pancreas to secrete and abundant amount of fluid rich in bicarbonate ions when acidic chyme enters the duodenum is

Secretin

The alimentary canal of the digestion system is controlled by which nervous system

Sympathetic and parasympathetic systems

The blind tube at the end of the cecum filled with lymphocytes and immune cells is the ___.

appendix

Hepatic cells produce what?

bile

The liquid that is created and secreted by the liver to help with lipid digestion is

bile

Pancreatic amylase breaks ___ down into _____

carbohydrates; disaccharides

Pancreatic amylase breaks _____ down into _____

carbohydrates; disaccharides

The _____ is formed by the merging of the right and left hepatic ducts

common hepatic duct

The pancreas secretes _____ by exocrine mechanisms, and _____ by endocrine mechanisms

digestive enzymes and insulin

Hepatic cells responding to the hormone insulin lower the blood glucose level by polymerizing glucose to form

glycogen

What is the correct order of layers of wall of digestive tract starting with innermost layer

mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, serosa

The liver is located mainly in the ____ quadrant of the abdominal cavity just _____ to the diaphragm

upper right; inferior