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Exam 5 Vert Anatomy
Digestive, Urinary, & Reproductive System
Question | Answer |
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What is the process of taking in food & drink or other substances by swallowing or absorption? | Ingestion |
What is Mastication? | The process of chewing |
What is the process of swallowing? | Deglutition |
What is the breaking down of food referred to as? | Digestion |
What will happen to the materials that were neither digested or absorbed? | Will be expelled from the body via defection/elimination. |
In what forms can digestion occur? | Both mechanically & chemically |
What is the GI Tract? | The gastrointestinal tract: will be the site where digestion begins. |
What term refers to the stomach? | Gastric |
What term refers to the intestines? | Enteric |
What will the GI tract consist of? | A tube that runs the length of the body |
Where does the GI tract start & begin? | The mouth & the anus |
What is the basic structure of the GI tract?? | A mucosal layer (3), Submucosal layer, Muscular layer (2), Skeletal muscle, & serosa. |
What are the 2 layers of muscular layer of the GI tract? | The Inner circular layer & the outer longitude layer |
What is the layer that will allow for conscious control within that area of the GI tract? | Skeletal Muscle |
What is the layer of the GI tract that will help to join the mucosal layer with the muscular layers? | The submucosa |
What are the 3 layers of the mucosal layer of the GI tract? | Epithelium, Lamina Propria, & Muscularis Mucosae |
What layer of the GI Tract will line & enclose the body cavities? | The serosa |
What is the serosal layer formed of? | Loose connective tissue |
In what forms will the epithelium be present in the GI tract? | Either simple columnar epithelium or stratified squamous epithelium |
Where will the simple columnar epithelium be located? | Throughout the length of the GI tract |
Where will the stratified squamous epithelium be located? | Near the mouth and anus |
What is the function of the Muscularis Mucosae? | To form the mucosal fold that will increase the surface area of th stomach & intestines. |
What will the Lamina Propria contain? | Blood vessels, lymph vessels, & glands |
What is the Lamina Propria formed of | Loose areolar connective tissue |
What layer of the GI tract will contain adventitia? | The serosa |
What is the adventitia? | A connective tissues layer that will bind structures together vs. reducing the friction between them. |
What is the Oral cavity? | The entrance to the GI tract |
What is the oral cavity formed of? | The vestibule & the oral cavity |
What forms the vestibule? | The space between the lips & cheeks, and the outer surfaces of the teeth |
What forms the oral cavity? | The area bordered by the inner surfaces of the teeth & the soft & hard palate. |
What is the general structure of teeth? | Will be embedded in the upper maxilla bone or lower mandibular bone. |
What is the crown of the tooth? | The visible part of the tooth that extends above the gingiva & is covered by enamel. |
What is the root of the tooth? | The portion of the tooth that is not visible beneath the gingiva. |
What is the apex of the tooth? | The area found at the very bottom of the root |
What is the neck of the tooth? | The junction between the crown & the root? |
What is the surface of the tooth that faces inward?? | Lingual & Palatal |
What is the surface of the tooth that faces outward? | Labial & buccal |
What is the edge of the tooth that faces inward? | Mesial |
What is the edge of the tooth that faces outward? | Distal |
What is the biting surface of the tooth? | The Occlusal surface |
WHat is dentin? | The hard as bone substance that will contain blood vessels and nerves & will surround the pulp cavity |
What is the muscular surface found on the ventral surface of the oral cavity? | The tongue |
What are the functions of the papillae located on the dorsal surface of the tongue?? | Mechanical - grooming Specialized - sensations. |
Wat is the temporomandibular joint? | The connection between the condyle process of the mandible & the fossa of the temporal bone |
What are the movements of the TMJ? | Flexion, Extension, & Translation |
What is the movement of translation? | The ability to move laterally & rostrally. |
What are the different forms of saliva? | Watery, viscous, or mixed |
What are the 3 main paired glands that will secrete saliva? | The parotid gland, mandibular gland & sublingual gland |
What are the main functions of saliva? | Moisten & lubricate food, antibacterial action, pH regulation, thermoregulation, enzymatic digestion. |
What are the structures located within the pharynx? | The eustachian tube & tonsils |
What is peristalsis? | The pattern of muscle contractions that will propel food through the GI tract |
What are the 4 serous membranes found within the abdominal cavity? | Visceral peritoneum, parietal peritoneum, mesentery, & omentum |
What will be what suspends the intestines from the abdominal wall? | Mesentery |
What is the double-layer, connecting peritoneum that helps to link the stomach to the abdominal wall? | The omentum |
What is the funciton of the omentum? | Fat storage and insulation for the abdomen |
What is the makeup of makeup of the mesentery? | Vascular & innervated |
What are the 4 functions of the stomch? | 1. storage of ingested substances 2. chemical & mechanical breakdown of ingested materials 3. WILL NOT ABSORB NUTRIENTS 4. will produce intrinsic factors |
What is the term for the solid form that food will be in when entering the stomach? | Bolus |
What is the term for the state in which food will exit the stomach? | Chyme |
How many chambers will be present within a ruminant stomach | 4 |
Where will the monogastric stomach be located? | behind the diaphragm |
What are the 4 glandular portions of the monogastric stomach? | Cardia, fundus, body, pylorus |
What condition forms when an animals cardiac sphincter closed too tightly & gas cannot be released? | Bloat |
What portion of the stomach is capable of great expandability? | fundus |
What is the largest portion of the stomach? | The body |
What is the primary function of the body of the stomach? | to mix ingested food with digestive fluids |
What is the most distal portion of the stomach? | The pylorus |
What will control the rate in which chyme is pumped from the pylorus to the duodenum? | The pyloric sphincter |
What are rugae? | folds within the gastric mucosa that allow the stomach to expand when filled with food. |
What is a composite organ? | An organ formed of multiple parts. |
What type of animals will be ruminants? | Some species of herbivores |
How will a ruminants diet differ from a carnivores? | It will require more food intake than a carnivore because their diet will be less dense. |
What are the 4 chambers of the ruminant stomach? | Reticulum, rumen, omasum, abomasum |
Characteristics of the forestomach? | Will be non-glandular. will not produce digestive enzymes, instead there will be a mutualistic relationship with microorganisms living in the forestomach. |
Which chamber of the forestomach will have a honeycomb resembling structure. | the reticulum |
Which is the largest expandable portion of the forestomach? | the rumen |
What chamber of the forestomach is referred to as the "book stomach? | the omasum |
What chamber of the ruminant stomach is referred to as the "true stomach"? | the abomasum |
Why is the abomasum referred to as the "true stomach"? | It functions identically to the monogastric stomach. |
What is the esophageal groove? | a structure in young ruminants that with bypass the reticulorumen in order for the nursing milk to pass directly into the omasum & abomasum |
Why is the esophageal groove important? | The reaction between the milk & the microorganisms can cause lactic acid buildup which can be damaging to the microorganisms |
What does rumination mean? | chewing the cud |
What is the main contraction of the reticulorumen? | mixing functions |
On what basis will the reticulorumen separate particles? | Based upon their size |
What will happen during rumination? | Ingesta from the reticulorumen will move back into the oral cavity for additional salivation & continued chewing |
What are the 4 steps of rumination? | regurgitation, re-insalivation, re-mastication, re-swallowing |
What is eructation? | the secondary contraction that is responsible for the release of gasses that is produced by the reticulorumen during fermentation |
What gasses are released during the fermentation process in ruminants? | methane & carbon dioxide |
Where do monogastric & ruminant stomachs come back together in structure? | The small intestine |
What is the small intestine? | the small tube that carries the chyme away from the stomach & deposits it into the large intestine |
What is responsible for suspending the small intestine from the abdominal wall? | the mesentery |
What are the 3 parts of the small intestine? | duodenum, jejunum, & ileum |
What are the main functions of the small intestine?? | Chemical digestion & absorption |
What is the portion of the small intestine that will receive chyme via the pyloric sphincter? | the duodenum |
What is the portion of the small intestine that the Preyer's patch can be found in? | The Ileum |
Wat is the longest portion of the small intestine? | the jejunum |
Where will the ileum empty to in ruminants? | The cecum or the colon |
Where will the ileum empty into in non-ruminant herbivores? | the cecum |
Where will the ileum empty into in dogs & cats? | the colon |
What are plications? | Folds present in the mucosal lining of the small intestine that will increase the surface area. |
What will be the function of villi & microvilli within the small intestine? | will form a brush border. |
What are intestinal crypts? | the site where intestinal cells undergo mitosis to replace the tips of the villi & microvilli that are lost during their functions. |
What are lacteals? | lymphatic capillaries that transport absorbed lipids & fat-soluble substance to the thoracic duct & into the vena cava. |
What are the functions of the blood capillaries within the small intestine? | Will help to collect some of the absorbed nutrients & transport them to the liver |