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Starr Waller SS2
ANATOMY
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Injestion | process of taking food into the mouth, starting it on its jounry through the digestive tract. |
| Digestion | A group of process that break complex nutrients into simpler ones thus facilitatiing their absorption, mechanical digestion physically breaks large chucks into small bits. Chemical digestion breaks molecules apart |
| Motility | Movement by the muscular components of the digestive tube including process fo mechanical digestion, ex: peristalsis and segmentation |
| Secretion | Release of digestive juices |
| Absorption | Movements of the nutrients through the gastrointestinal mucosa and into the internal environment |
| Elimination | Excretion of the residues of the digestive process from the rectum, through the anus, defication |
| Regulation | Coordination of digestive activity |
| Adaptation | process by which the magnitude of the receptor protential decreases over time in response to a contiunual stimulus |
| Sensation | Impulses that travel over sensory pathways to the brain and spinal cord. |
| Nociceptor | Free nerve endings that serve as the primary sensory receptors for pain |