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Hito-Digestive
Hito-Digestive System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The digestive system | the oral cavity (mouth), esophagus, stomach, small intestine (duodenum, jejunum, ileum), large intestine (cecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon), rectum, anal canal, and anus |
| Three pairs of salivary glands | sublingual, submandibular or submaxillary, and parotid glands |
| Gum | the tissue that surrounds the necks of teeth and covers the alveolar parts of the jaws |
| Ileum | most of the absorption of good takes place in the third part of the small intestine. |
| Chyme | Gastric juice break down food into a liquid mass called |
| feces or stool | the absorption of water by the colon changes the intestinal contents from a fluid to a more solid consistency |
| rectum | the sigmoid colon is S shaped and extends from the descending colon into |
| three accessory organs of digestion | pancreas, liver, and gall bladder or cholecyst |