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• What part of the body is located towards the feet?
Inferior
• Chemical breakdown for absorption is called what?
Digestion
• Waves of muscular contraction down the esophagus is called what?
Peristalsis
• Where does the esophagus enter the stomach?
cardiac region
• What is the large intestine that travels across the body?
Transverse Colon
• How many muscle layers are in the esophagus?
2 longitudinal and circular
• What stomach region secretes mucus to protect the stomach?
cardiac region
• What is the value between the comach and esophagus?
there isn’t one
The primary function of the teeth is
Chewing/mechanical progressing
• What structure secretes bile into the duodenum?
Duodenum Papilla
• Where is bile stored?
Gal Bladder
• What is not present in a pigs digestive system?
Appendix
• What is the “S” shaped intestine called?
Sigmoid
• What organ produces bile?
Liver
• What are the contents of the large intestine?
solids, liquids, gases
• What structure prevents food from entering the respiratory tract
epogotitlis
• Where are water and vitamins absorbed?
large intestine
• What does venous blood travel through when leaving the intestines?
mansentary
• Small folds in the intestine wall are called what?
Plicae
• What is the outer most layer of the esophagus?
Longitudinal
• The stomach performs what functions?
Mechanical
• All absorbed nutrients / toxins must pass through what organ?
Liver
• The mesentery carries blood to where?
Small intestine
• What is not part of the small intestine?
Cecum