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Ruminant Digestive System & sheep

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
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Ruminants

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animals that are high in fiber

#2
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a-, an-

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without

#3
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Ab-

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away from

#4
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ad-,af-

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to, toward

#5
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dia-

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through

#6
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dis-,dys-

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difficult

#7
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ex, ef

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away from

#8
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-osis

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condition of, state caused by

#9
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-rrhea

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flowing

#10
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Rumination Cycle:

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• Regurgitation: throwing the food back up into the mouth from the reticulum • Reinsalvation: Wetting the food again with saliva to breakdown the food more • Remastication: rechewing of the food • Redeglutition: Reswallowing of the food

#11
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Teeth

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Aid in prehension and particle reduction

#12
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Tongue

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Prehension, mixing and tasting

#13
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Salivary glands

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Produce saliva that it is composed of mucin, bicarbonate, and urea with water

#14
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Esophagus

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Carries food from the pharynx to stomach. Also aids the returning food to the mouth during regurgitation

#15
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Reticulum

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initiates regurgitation. Looks like honeycombs. Also called the hardware stomach

#16
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Rumen

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Microbial fermentation of feed and absorption of volitale fatty acids. Looks like carpet because of the papillae

#17
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Omasum

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Water absorption. looks like the pages of a book and feels like a stressball

#18
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Abomasum

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Is the true stomach. Produces HCl, pepsinogen, intrinsic factor, gastrin, lysozyme and rennin to curdle milk. Stores mixes physical breakdown of food. initial digestion of proteins.

#19
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Greater Omentum

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Overlays the stomach. Produce leukocytes

#20
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Esophageal Groove

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Two folds that allow milk to bypass the rumen and reticulum

#21
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Liver

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Produce plasma proteins, angiotensinogen, IGF-1, process nutrients, degrade toxins hormones and drugs, also produce bile

#22
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Gall bladder

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Stores bile

#23
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Pancreas

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Produce procarboxypetidase, chymotrypsinogen, pancreatic lipase, pancreatic amylase, trypsinogen, insulin and glucagon

#24
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Duodenum

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Produce carboxypeptidase, aminopeptidase, maltase, lactase, and bicarbonate. Also receive chyme, pancreatic secretions, and bile