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MOUTH
Allows for the sense of taste
Mastication of food
Mixing food with saliva
Ingestion
Enzymes released into this part by accessory organ
Produces bolus
Initial site of the physical breakdown of food
PHARYNX
Serves as a passageway for air and food
Peristalsis begins here
Food is moved to the esophagus
Also attached to larynx
EPIGLOTTIS
Directs food into the esophagus and out of the
trachea
ESOPHAGUS
Passageway for food only – not air
Leads to the stomach
One of the organs that passes through the diaphragm
Peristalsis occurs here
CARIDIOESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER
Opens to allow food into the stomach
STOMACH
Temporary storage tank for food (4-6 hours)
Contains HCl
Connected to the small intestine
Ability to stretch
Lesser and Greater omentum are attached here
Contain rugae
Physical breakdown of food through churning
Enzymes released here
Chyme production
PYLORIC SPHINCTER
Opens to allow food into the small intestine
SMALL INTESTINE
Villi present
Microvilli present
Enzymes released into this part by accessory organ
Enzymes produced here
Plicae circulares found here
Muscular tube beginning at the pyloric sphincter
Ends at the illeocecal valve
Suspended from the abdominal wall by the mesentery
Site of nutrient absorption into the blood
The body’s major digestive organ
Attached to the stomach via the duodenum
Attaches to the large intestine at the end of the ileum
ILEOCECAL SPHINCTER
Attaches to the large intestine at the end of the ileum
LARGE INTESTINE
Site of absorption of water
No digestion occurs here
Vitamin production occurs here
Lining has haustra
Large diameter tube
Goblet cells produce mucus to lubricate the passage of
feces
Small intestine attaches at the cecum
Appendix hangs from here
Crosses over from abdomen to pelvis
Also known as the colon
Final passage of waste products and indigestible materia
RECTUM
Waste products waiting to be released here
Ends with more than one sphincter, which are normally
closed
ANAL SPHINCTER
Allows defecation