Animal Science Digestion Terms

The sum of all chemical and physical properties

• Absorption

• Mastication

• Metabolism

• Prehension

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The process of chewing food

• Mastication

• Metabolism

• Prehension

• Anabolism

Sac-like enlargement of the esophagus in birds used to store food

• Proventriculus

• Gizzard

• Crop

• Ceca

Organic catalysts that speed up digestion

• Bile

• Enzymes

• Villi

• Chyme

The process of taking digested parts into the bloodstream

• Absorption

• Prehension

• Anabolism

• Mastication

Hair like extensions of the stomach lining that increase surface area

• Enzymes

• Cardia

• Villi

• Alimentary Hairs

Partly digested feed

• Enzymes

• Bile

• Cardia

• Chyme

Aids in digestion of fats and fatty acids

• Bile

• Chyme

• Ceca

• Gizzard

The method or way food is delivered to the mouth

• Mastication

• Prehension

• Absorption

• Villi

Muscular portion of bird stomach, grinds and crushes feed particles

• Cardia

• Gizzard

• Proventriculus

• Ceca