Transcript Digestive System - Lemoore Elementary School

Digestive System
By: Joshua Lynn
Mouth
• In our mouth there are a lot of things like
Nasal Cavity, Opal Cavity, Jaw, Palate,
Tongue, Pharynx, Epiglottis Larynx and
opening into Pharynx and uvula without
the mouth you will die because you can’t
eat or drink.
Esophagus
The esophagus is a muscular tube that is
about twelve to nine inches long. The
esophagus is the inside of your neck.
When ever you eat something it goes
down the esophagus and into the
stomach.
stomach
• The stomach is located between the
esophagus and small intestine. The
stomach helps digest food you ate. The
stomach is important without it you can’t
eat.
Small Intestine
It lies between the stomach and leads into
the large intestine. The intestine absorp
nutrients and spreads to the whole body.
It extends 22 to 25ft.
Large Intestine
• The large intestine is larger than the small
intestine. The large intestine takes all of
the stuff that is not nutrients. When you
have to go to the restroom you getting rid
of the bad stuff for you. The large
intestine is 5ft long.
Liver
• a large very vascular glandular organ of
vertebrates that secretes bile and causes
important changes in many of the
substances contained in the blood. You
cant feel the liver because it behind the
rib cage
Appendix
The appendix is a hollow tube attached to
the large intestine.
Pancreas
• The pancreas is a organ that assist the
absorption nutrients. The digestion is in
the small intestine.
Gall Bladder
• The gall bladder is a muscular sac which
bile is from the liver and stored lintel
needed.
Enzymes
any of numerous complex proteins that are
produced by living cells and catalyze
specific biochemical reactions at body
temperatures.
Bile/ Bile Duct
• A duct is which bile is passed by to the
liver then to the gall bladder.
Mucus
• a viscid slippery secretion that is usually
rich in mucins and is produced by mucous
membranes which it moistens and
protects.
Chemical Digestion
Absorption
• The process of being absorped.
Mechanical Digestion
Salivary Amylase
• Of or relating to saliva or the glands that
secrete it producing or carrying saliva.
Villi
• one of the minute finger-shaped processes
of the mucous membrane of the small
intestine that serve in the absorption of
nutriment.
Gastric Juices
• A thin watery acid digestive fluid secreted
by glands in the mucous membrane of the
stomach.
Duodenum
• the first part of the small intestine
extending from the pylorus to the
jejunum.
Chyme
• the semifluid mass of partly digested food
expelled by the stomach into the
duodenum.
Bibliography
http://www.merriam-webster.com/