Digestive System Review

What must happen in the digestive system for our body to utilize the food we eat?

• Defacation

• Breaking down

• Getting to our stomch

• Chewing

What combining form means to take in?

• Absorb

• Adsorb

• absorpt/o

• adsorpt/o

If a medication is to be given Buccally, where does the medication go?

• Under the tongue

• Swallowed

• On the teeth

• On the cheek

If enter/o means intestines, which doctor specializes in stomach and intestinal conditions?

• Abdoenterologist

• Thoroenterologist

• Gastroenterologist

• Meteorenterologist

Since -scopy means to look, which option would mean to look in the abdomen?

• Abdoscopy

• Oroscopy

• Endoscopy

• Laparoscopy

Where are the submandibular saliva ducts?

• Floor of the mouth

• Top of the mouth

• Back of the mouh

• In the tongue

What is responsible for closing off the esophagus when we breath?

• Epiglottis

• Upper Esophageal Sphincter

• Lower Pharyngeal Sphincter

• Lower Laryngeal Sphincter

What do the rugae do in our stomach?

• Allows for expansion and shrinking of our stomach

• Churns the food to break it down

• There is no true purpose

• Move the stomach up and down

What opens into the duodenum?

• Purist sphincter

• Duodenal sphincter

• Colonastic Sphincter

• Pyloric Sphincter

Where does the appendix attach to the large intestine?

• Cecum

• Ascending Colon

• Duodenum

• Illeum