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What is the alimentary canal?
Digestive tract.
What are the two types of glands in the body?
Endocrine & Exocrine
Endocrine glands
Secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream.
Exocrine glands
Secrete hormones into ducts.
What are the accessory exocrine glands of the digestive system?
What is special about the pancreas?
It is both an endocrine gland and exocrine gland.
Ingestion
Take in food
Digestion
Absorption
Egestion
Defecation
What are food residues?
What are the four major types of organic compounds?
What are the divisions of the alimentary canal?
What is fauces?
What is the superior labial frenulum?
Upper lip
What is the inferior labial frenulum?
Lower lip
What are the three parts of the tooth?
Crown, neck, root.
What is enamel?
What are the two parts of the crown?
The anatomical crown & the clinical crown.
Anatomical crown
Clinical crown
What is a root canal?
What is the occlusal surface of the crown?
What are cusps?
Incisors
Canines
Premolars
Molars
What are deciduous teeth?
When do baby teeth come in?
How many total baby teeth are there?
When do baby teeth fall out?
How many total adult teeth?
What material are the teeth made up of?
What is the pulp cavity?
What are dental caries?
What is gingivitis?
What is pyorrhea?
What is an impacted wisdom tooth?
What is mastication?
Chewing
What is deglutition?
Swallowing
What are the chemoreceptors on the tongue?
Chemical receptors
What are the three types of tonsils?
Palatine, lingual, pharyngeal
What are adenoids?
Enlarged pharyngeal tonsils
What type of tissue is inside the tonsils
What are immunoglobulins?
What is tonsillitis?
What is a tonsillectomy
Where are the parotid salivary glands?
What are mumps?
What is the function of saliva?
What are the two parts of the palate?
What is the pharynx?
What is the oropharynx?
Where is the laryngopharynx?
What is a bolus?
What is the function of the epiglottis?
What is the esophagus?
What is peristalsis
Where is the stomach located?
Upper left.
What is acid reflux?
Irritation of the gastroesophageal sphincter
What are the three parts of the stomach?
The fundus, the body and the pyloric
What is the gastroesophageal sphincter?
What is the pyloric sphincter?
Greater curvature of the stomach
Lesser curvature of the stomach
What are the functions of the greater omentum
What is gastric rugae
What is chyme
Where is hydrochloric acid created
Where is pepsinogen created?
What does pepsin do?
What substances are normally absorbed through the stomach?
What is a gastric ulcer?
What are gastric ulcers caused by?
What is flatulence?
Fart.
What is pyloric stenosis