Medical Terminology Digestive System

what is ingestion

• food material taken into the mouth

• food being broken down

• absorption

• elimination

what is the first part of the small intestine

• fundus

• ileum

• duodenum

• jejunum

the acending colon is part of the

• large intestine

• small intestine

• stomach

• kidney

where is food absorbed into the bloodstream?

• esophagus

• stomach

• large intestine

• small intestine

what are the hairlike projections called in the small intestine

• sphincters

• villi

• pylorus

• rugae

what is the gallbladders job

• release insulin

• store bile

• produce bile

• release enzymes

the ______ releases insulin

what is a hernia

• a malignant tumor of the liver

• open sore in the lining of the stomach

• protrusion of an organ through the muscle containing it

• inflamation of the intestinal tract

IBS stands for what

• Irritable bowel syndrome

• inner body sore

• irritable absorption syndrome

• internet bias syndrome

cholelithiasis is...

• stones in the gallbladder

• stones in the kidney

• chronic inflammation of the colon

• twisting of the intestines