Exam 33: The Digestive System

Which organ of the digestive system connects the mouth and the esophagus?

The most abundant dietary lipids are ________, which are found in meats, eggs, milk, and butter.

Which organ of the digestive system begins the chemical breakdown of foods?

Letter D on the figure of the digestive system represents the ________.

In ____, also called heartburn, stomach acids are pushed into the esophagus.

The ________ sphincter controls the movement of chyme from the ileum to the cecum, which is the beginning of the large intestine.

Which pancreatic enzyme digests protein?

The beginning of the small intestine is called the ________ and is C-shaped and relatively short.

The ________ cells of the saliva secrete amylase and a fluid made mostly of water.

The gallbladder ____.

The ________ is shown at letter K on the figure of the digestive system.

The hepatic duct merges with the ________ duct from the gallbladder to form the common bile duct.

Letter B on the figure of the digestive system shows the ________.

The ________, which begins the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food, is shown at letter E on the figure of the digestive system.

The liver is divided into a large right lobe and a small left lobe, which are divided into smaller parts called hepatic ________ that contain macrophages and hepatocytes.

Which of these results from the breakdown of the lining of the stomach?

Which vitamin is needed for production of visual receptors?

The pancreatic enzymes that digest nucleic acids are ________.

When the ________ passes too quickly through the small intestines, nutrients are not absorbed.

The ____ is the main site of nutrient absorption.