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Anatomy Vocabulary to Study

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Enzyme   a small protein that breaks down food and delivers sugars and needed nutrients to cells who can generate it into ATP  
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Villi   processes on certain membranes where they serve in absorbing nutrient  
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Absorption   the process in which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another  
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Mechanical Digestion   food is crushed, or chewed, by the teeth and pushed down the esophagus by the tongue  
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Chyme   the acidic mass in the stomach that passes through the small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partly digested food  
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Chemical Digestion   breaking down foods into simpler nutrients that can be transported and used by other cells  
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Glucose   a sugar having several different forms and having about one half the sweetness of other sugars  
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Diffusion   particles moving from a high concentration to a low concentration  
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Peristalsis   creating wavelike movements that push the contents of the canal that it is in forward  
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