Academic Integrity: tutoring, explanations, and feedback — we don’t complete graded work or submit on a student’s behalf.

Prelab: Journey through the digestive sysiel Use the terms below to fill in the

ID: 3477982 • Letter: P

Question

Prelab: Journey through the digestive sysiel Use the terms below to fill in the blanks: Parotid Peyer's patches Pyloric sphincter Rectum Rugae v Sigmoid colon Sublingual Submandibular Transverse colon Anal sphineters Gastroesophageal sphincter Ileocecal sphincter Ileum Jejunum Laryngopharynx Oral cavity Oropharynx Pancreas Appendix Ascending colon Cecum Descending colon Duodenum Esophagus Gall bladder You begin as a piece of food entering the mouth. The lips and tongue move you past the teeth into the (1) . Here, saliva from the (2) ,(3) and glands mixes with the chewed food to lubricate it and begin the digestive essnta process. As the tongue pushes the bolus of food past the fauces, it enters the (5) which will trigger the swallowing reflex. A wave of peristalsis now pushes you down the (6)With the epiglottis closed, you are forced into the (7) which passes through the hiatus of the diaphragm to enter the abdominal cavity into the stomach. Here, food is churned by muscle Now you pass through the (8) contractions and mixed with stomach acid. The folds of stomach lining, or (9) allow the organ to stretch as needed to hold the food. When liquefied, the chyme is pushed, a small amount at a time, through the (10)i into the small intestine. The first part of the small intestine, the (11) 1- the (12) continues, you are pushed into the next section of small intestine, the (14) is lined with villi for digesting and absorbing food molecules. Finally, you enter the 15)where most of these processes are completed. Just under the mucosal surface, you may find nodules of lymphatic (immune) tissue called (16) , also receives secretions of bile from and digestive enzymes from the (13) As which At the end of the small intestine, you pass through a one-way valve, the (17) the large intestine. Below you is a dead-end sac called the (18) attached a finger-like projection of lymphatic tissue, the (19) through the (20 go around the hepatic flexure into the horizontal (21) splenic flexure, you move downward through the (22) shaped curve of the (23) can press on the walls of this section and trigger the urge to defecate, which will result in opening the internal and external (25) into from which is . pward, , where water and electrolytes begin to be reabsorbed. Then you . After another turn at the which takes you to the S- into the straight (24)The dried feces now

Explanation / Answer

Answer

1. Oral cavity

2.parotid

3. submandibular

4.  sublingual

5. Oropharynx

6. Laryngopharynx

7. Esophagus

8. Gastroesophageal sphincter

9. rugae

10.Pyloric sphincter

11. Duodenum

12. Gall bladder

13. pancreas

14.Jejunum

15.ileum

16.  Peyer’s patches

17. ileocecal sphincter

18. appendix

19.Cecum

20. Ascending colon

21.  transverse colon

22.  descendingcolon

23. sigmoid colon

24. rectum

25.anal sphincters