Digestive System

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Digestive System

• By Joshua Lynn

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Mouth

• In our mouth there are a lot of things like Nasal
  Cavity, Opal Cavity, Jaw, Palate, Tongue,
  Pharynx, Epiglottis Larynx and opening into
  Pharynx and uvula without the mouth you will die
  because you cant eat or drink.

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Esophagus

• The esophagus is a muscular tube that is about
  twelve to nine inches long. The esophagus is the
  inside of your neck. When ever you eat something
  it goes down the esophagus and into the stomach.

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stomach

• The stomach is located between the esophagus and
  small intestine. The stomach helps digest food
  you ate. The stomach is important without it you
  cant eat.

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Small Intestine

• It lies between the stomach and leads into the
  large intestine. The intestine absorp nutrients
  and spreads to the whole body. It extends 22 to
  25ft.

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Large Intestine

• The large intestine is larger than the small
  intestine. The large intestine takes all of the
  stuff that is not nutrients. When you have to go
  to the restroom you getting rid of the bad stuff
  for you. The large intestine is 5ft long.

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Liver

• a large very vascular glandular organ of
  vertebrates that secretes bile and causes
  important changes in many of the substances
  contained in the blood. You cant feel the liver
  because it behind the rib cage

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Appendix

• The appendix is a hollow tube attached to the
  large intestine.

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Pancreas

• The pancreas is a organ that assist the
  absorption nutrients. The digestion is in the
  small intestine.

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Gall Bladder

• The gall bladder is a muscular sac which bile is
  from the liver and stored lintel needed.

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Enzymes

• any of numerous complex proteins that are
  produced by living cells and catalyze specific
  biochemical reactions at body temperatures.

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Bile/ Bile Duct

• A duct is which bile is passed by to the liver
  then to the gall bladder.

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Mucus
Mucus

• a viscid slippery secretion that is usually rich
  in mucins and is produced by mucous membranes
  which it moistens and protects.

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Chemical Digestion

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Absorption

• The process of being absorped.

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Mechanical Digestion
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Salivary Amylase

• Of or relating to saliva or the glands that
  secrete it producing or carrying saliva.

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Villi

• one of the minute finger-shaped processes of the
  mucous membrane of the small intestine that serve
  in the absorption of nutriment.

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Gastric Juices

• A thin watery acid digestive fluid secreted by
  glands in the mucous membrane of the stomach.

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Duodenum

• the first part of the small intestine extending
  from the pylorus to the jejunum.

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Chyme

• the semifluid mass of partly digested food
  expelled by the stomach into the duodenum.

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Bibliography

• http//www.merriam-webster.com/