Anayanci Molina-Vargas: The Digestive System Crossword

Taking food and water into the mouth
Can be either mechanical or chemical; deals with breaking down the food
The only place in the body that can absorb nutrients
Band of longitudinal smooth muscle on the large intestine; three bands of longitudinal smooth muscle in its muscularis
Vein that has to be high in oxygen; is the only passage way from the small intestine to the liver
Movement from the GI tract to the blood or lymph
Secures the tongue to the floor of the mouth
Hardest substance in the body that is found in the teeth
Viral disease that attacks the parotid gland and the testicles; inflammation of the parotid gland
Web of nerves that is between the longitudinal muscle and the circular muscle
Outside sheath that is made out of connective tissue (in the stomach)
Thick membrane that is the fusion of the visceral perotineum and the parietal peritoneum; is what houses the blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatic vessles and anchors these structures in place
Cells that produce Pepsinogen
Cells that produce Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) and intrinsic factor
What activates Pepsinogen
Fist part of the small intestine
Cells that produce digestive enzymes
Cells that produce a protective mucus
Cells that are also known as Paneth Cells, protect the intestinal epithelium from bacteria
Patches that are lymphoid follicles in the submucosa
Where bile is stored
also known as plicae circulares; flods of the mucosa and submucosa that are visible ridges along the surface of the small intestine wall
involves the death of hepatocytes and their replacement by fibrous tissue in the liver; organ color becomes pale because of this disease and becomes firmer
Inflammation of the pancreas that invilves the release of pancreatic enzymes that digests the pancreas tissue itself
Inflammation of the appendix; usually occurs because of obstruction
Lack of the enzyme lactase causes this disease
First step in lipid digestion that transforms large lipid droplets into smaller lipid droplets
A disease that involves localized inflammatory degeneration , which can occur anywhere along the digestive tract but most commonly involves the distal ileum and proximal colon
Hormone released into the bloodstream by the duodenum
Pocket-like sacs caused by the tone of the teniae coli