The acid that is found in gastric juice.

The pear-shaped sac on the underside of the liver that stores and concentrates bile.

The first 24 cm of the small intestine that begins at the pyloric valve and ends at the duouenjejunal flexure.

A blind pouch in the lower right abdominal quadrant inferior to the ileocecal valve.

The forceful ejection of stomach and intestinal contents from the mouth.

Digests 10% to 15% of dietary fat in the stomach.

The salivary gland that is located on the floor of the mouth.

Where the ileum meets the cecum.

Section of the colon that begins at the ileoceccal valve and passes up the right side of the abdomen.

The muscular funnel that connects the oral cavity to the esophagus and the nasal cavity to the larynx.

A ring of smooth muscle that regulates the passage of chyme into the duodenum from the stomach.

Consists of the hepatic portal vein, hepatic artery, and bile ductules.

The movement in which ringlike constriction appear at several places and move throughout the small intestine.

The S-shaped portion of the tract that continues to the rectum.

The breaking of food into small pieces that can be swallowed

The longitudinal wrinkles that form when the stomach is empty.

A free fluid stored and concentrated by the gallbladder containing minerals, cholesterol, and neural fats, phospholipids, and pile pigments.

Slow the progress of chyme and make it travel in a spiral path.

The cells type that makes up the large intestine.

The first phase of swallowing, where the tongue forms a food bolus and pushes it into the laryngopharynx.

Cells in the gastric glands which secrete gastric lipase and pepsinogen.

Neurotransmitter that stimulates the pancreatic acini to secrete enzymes during the cephalic phase.

Increase surface area and contain brush border enzymes that carry out the final stages of chemical digestion.

The amount of indigestible food residue that large intestine receives per day.

A modified periosteum whose collagen fibers penetrate into the bone one side and into the tooth on the other