Digestive System

Transfer of digested nutrients from the digestive tract into the circulation

Substance produced in the liver that emulsifies fats

Milky-appearing fluid abbsorbed into the lymphatic system from the small intestine. It consists of lymph and droplets of digested fat

Mixture of partially digested food, water and digestive juices that forms in the stomach

Act of eliminating undigested waste from the digestive tract

Act of swallowing

Process of breaking down food into absorable particles

First portion of the small intestine

To break up fats into small particles

Organic catalyst; speeds the rate of a reaction but is not changed in the reactiom

Muscular tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach

Muscular sac on the inferior surface of the liver that stores bile

Splitting of large molecules by the addition of water, as in digestion

Organ if the digestive tract between the stomach and the anus, consisting of the small and large intestine

Lymphatic capillary that drains digestive fats from the villi of the small intestine

Large gland inferior to the diagphram in the superior right abdomen; has many functions, including the secretion, detoxification, storage, and interconversions of nutrients

Act of chewing

Large, elongated gland behind the stomach; produces digestive enzymes and hormones

Wavelike movements in the wall of an organ or duct that propel its contents

Serous membranr that lines the abdominal cavity and forms outer layer of the abdominal organs; forms supporting ligaments for some organs

Secretion of the salivary glands; moistens food and contains enzyme that digests starch

Organ of the digestive tract that stores food, mixes it with digestive juices, and moves into the small intestine

Small fingerlike projections from the surface of a membrane; projections in the lining of small intestine through which digested food is absorbed