Digestive Overview

Which of the following is a digestive accessory organ?

• small intestine

• liver

• stomach

• large intestine

A person with diarrhea would most likely experience ___________.

• respiratory acidosis

• respiratory alkalosis

• metabolic acidosis

• metabolic alkalosis

Another name for the visceral peritoneum is the _______________.

• mucosa

• submucosa

• muscularis

• serosa

The myenteric and Meissner plexus are part of the enteric nervous system.

• True

• False

The sympathetic nervous system is more active during digestion than the parasympathetic nervous system.

• True

• False

Peritonitis is easily treatable with antibiotics and is usually not life-threatening.

• True

• False

This fold of peritoneum holds the stomach and duodenum to the liver.

• greater omentum

• lesser omentum

• falciform ligament

• mesentery