Digestion Flashcards


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Digestion
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Ingestion

It is the process of taking the food into the body through the mouth as like eating.

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Digestion

The process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed and take in by the body

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Egestion

The process of discharging the waste matter (feces) from the body.

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Salivary gland

Three pairs of glands in the mouth and digestive system that secreted the saliva for digestion.

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Saliva

Water liquid that secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands

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Oesphagus

The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach and the gullet

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Stomach

It is the internal organ where the first part of digestion happened.

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Small intestine

It is where most food is absorbed in an organism, where digestive enzymes are secreted into it to further break down

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BIle

It is secreted by the liver and contains cholesterol, bile salts and waste products

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Large intestine

The large intestine acts mainly to absorb water from digested materials and solidify feces.

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Rectum

The final section of the large intestine, terminating at the anus.

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Anus

The opening at the end of the alimentary canal through which solid waste matter leaves the body.

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Gall bladder

A muscular sack attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion

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Pancreas

A long, irregularly shaped gland in vertebrate animals that is located behind the stomach and is part of the digestive system

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Absorption

The process of absorbing or the condition of being absorbed.

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Emulsify

Make into or become an emulsion.

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VIlli

A fingerlike projection of the lining of the small intestine.