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By: Priscilla Clayton: Words used to define the body's process of digestion

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The small intestine is the body's what?   Major digestive organ  
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What are the three subdivisions?   Duodenum, Jejunum, & Ileum.  
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During Gastrointestinal processes, what is Ingestion?   In which food must be placed into the mouth before it can be acted on. An active voluntary process.  
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The action Propulsion means?   Foods are to be processed more than one digestive organ.  
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A Propulisive action that involves alternating waves of contraction and relaxation of the muscles in the organ wall is what?   Peristalsis.  
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Segmentation?   May help to propel foodstuffs through the small intestine , it normally only moves food back and forth across the internal wall of the organ, serving to mix it with digestive juices.  
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Chemical digestion is what?   The sequence of steps in which large food molecules are broken down to their building blocks by enzymes(protein molecules that act as catalysts.)  
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Defecation has the main importance of digestion. What is it's purpose?   Is the elimination of indigestible substances from the body via the anus in the form of feces.  
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Absorption in the intestinal process does what?   Transport of digested end products from the lumen of the GI tract to the blood or lymph.  
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What are the building blocks?   They are the carbohydrates-monosaccharides or simple sugars. Glucose, fructose, and galactose. Sucrose, lactose, maltose, and starch also known as polysaccharide. Disaccharides or double sugars.  
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