The process of breaking down food into absorbable particles

J shaped organ in superior left region of the abdomen

Largest gland located inferior and anterior to the ear

Receives food (ingestion)
Breaks food into small pieces done by teeth when chewing.
Mixes food with saliva

Necessary for the digestive process, but aren't part of digestive tract.

The process of taking up or assimilating a substance

Controls passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach

Located near body of lower jaw

Receives bolus of food and swallowing occurs rapidly by an involuntary reflex action

Largest accessory organ
Manufactures bile
Control of blood glucose
Storage of fat, iron, and vitamins
Formation of blood plasma proteins
Destruction of old blood cells
Synthesis of urea
Detoxification

A wave of circular muscular contractions propels food through the digestive tract

serves as a stroage pouch, digestive organ, churns

Glands under tongue

A muscular tube (10 in long)
Where food is lubricated with mucus and peristalsis moves it in to stomach

Stores bile
Chyme enters duodenum and this organ contracts and hepatopancreatic sphincter opens and bile flows out into duodenum

The region of the brain that controls appetite

A strong acid that unwinds proteins to prepare them for digestion. Also destroys foreign organisms

Enzyme in saliva initiates carbohydrate digestion

Largest part of digestive tract
Duodenum, jejunum, and illeum.
Participates in secretion, motility, digestion, and absorption.

Extends from duodenum to the spleen
Produces enzymes that digest fat, protein, carbs, and nucleic acids

The substance that converts pepsinogen to pepsin for protein digestion in stomach

A protein digesting enzyme. Produced in an inactive form and activated only when it contains HCL

A watery solution that moistens food and facilitates mastication and deglutition

Minimal digestion occurs but some water reabsorbed.
Undigested food is stored and formed into feces and then eliminated through the anus

Inflammation of the Gallbladder