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Cards In This Set
| Front | Back |
 Mouth |
Where the digestion begins with the teeth tearing up the food (mechanical digestion). |
 Teeth |
Instruments in the mouth used to tear and grind the food in order to digest. |
 Saliva |
Liquid in the mouth that helps digestion |
 Bolus |
Ball of lubricated food |
 Pharynx |
Throat |
 Epiglottis |
 Flap of tissue which covers the trachea (windpipe) in order for food to go down the |
 Trachea |
Windpipe |
 Esophagus |
Tube for passage of food from pharynx to stomach |
 Peristalsis |
The wavelike movement in which food is moved through the esophagus |
 Stomach |
J shaped organ that stores and breaks down food, produces gastric juice. |
 Rugae |
flaps of tissues in the stomach that move when the stomach moves |
 Chyme |
 Thick liquid form of food that leaves the stomach |
 Gastric juices |
 Juices that stomach produces: mucus, pepsin, & hydrochloric acid |
 Pepsin |
 Enzyme that begins the digestion of proteins |
 Hydrochloric acid |
 Strong acid, needed to make the stomach acidic |
