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| 2962246390 | undernourished | not getting adequate food, not enough calories | 0 | |
| 2962246391 | essential amino acids | Amino acids that are needed, but cannot be made by the body; they must be eatin in foods | 1 | |
| 2962246392 | malnourished | not being provided with adequate nourishment, enough calories but nutrient poor | 2 | |
| 2962246393 | essential fatty acids | fats needed by the body that must be consumed in the diet because the human body cannot manufacture them | 3 | |
| 2962246394 | vitamins | Essential nutrients that do not yield energy, but that are required for growth and proper functioning of the body. | 4 | |
| 2962246395 | minerals | substances that the body cannot manufacture but that are needed for forming healthy bones and teeth and regulating many vital body processes | 5 | |
| 2962246396 | herbivores | an organism that eats only plants. | 6 | |
| 2962246397 | carnivores | consumers that eat only animals | 7 | |
| 2962246398 | omnivores | an organism that eats both plants and animals. | 8 | |
| 2962246399 | suspension feeders | an animal that extracts food particles suspended in the surrounding water | 9 | |
| 2962246400 | substrate feeders | An organism that lives in or on its food source, eating its way through the food | 10 | |
| 2962246401 | deposit feeders | special type of substrate feeders that eat partially decayed organic material along with the soil they live in ex earthworms | 11 | |
| 2962246402 | fluid feeders | an animal that lives by sucking nutrient-rich fluids from another living organisms | 12 | |
| 2962246403 | bulk feeders | animals that eat relatively large pieces of food | 13 | |
| 2962246404 | ingestion | the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | 14 | |
| 2962246405 | digestion | the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body | 15 | |
| 2962246406 | enzymatic hydrolysis | the process in digestion that splits macromolecules from food by the enzymatic addition of water | 16 | |
| 2962246407 | absorption | the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion | 17 | |
| 2962246408 | elimination | the bodily process of discharging waste matter | 18 | |
| 2962246409 | intracellular digestion | The joining of food vacuoles and lysosomes to allow chemical digestion to occur within the cytoplasm of a cell. | 19 | |
| 2962246410 | extracellular digestion | digestion that takes place outside of the cell | 20 | |
| 2962246411 | gastrovascular cavities | a digestive cavity with only one opening; found in simple animals | 21 | |
| 2962246412 | complete digestive tract | A digestive tube that runs between a mouth and an anus; also called alimentary canal. An incomplete digestive tract has only one opening. | 22 | |
| 2962246413 | alimentary canal | a long, muscular tube that begins at the mouth and includes the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomcah, small intestine, large intestine, and anus | 23 | |
| 2962246414 | peristalsis | the process of wave-like muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along | 24 | |
| 2962246415 | sphincter muscles | rings of smooth muscle that regulate movement of substances in and out of an organ | 25 | |
| 2962246416 | salivary glands | three pairs of exocrine glands in the mouth that secrete saliva; the parotid, submandibular (submaxillary), and sublingual glands | 26 | |
| 2962246417 | pancreas | gland that secretes pancreatic juice into the duodenum, where it mixes with bile to digest food | 27 | |
| 2962246418 | liver | large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity | 28 | |
| 2962246419 | gall bladder | stores bile produced by the liver until it is needed in the duodenum | 29 | |
| 2962246420 | oral cavity | the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge | 30 | |
| 2962246421 | salivary amylase | in mouth, released by salivary glands and begins chemical breakdown of starch | 31 | |
| 2962246422 | bolus | a small round soft mass (as of chewed food) | 32 | |
| 2962246423 | pharynx | the passage to the stomach and lungs | 33 | |
| 2962246424 | epiglottis | a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing | 34 | |
| 2962246425 | stomach | an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal | 35 | |
| 2962246426 | gastric juice | digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase | 36 | |
| 2962246427 | pepsin | an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones | 37 | |
| 2962246428 | pepsinogen | The inactive form of pepsin that is first secreted by specialized (chief) cells located in gastric pits of the stomach. | 38 | |
| 2962246429 | chyme | mixture of stomach fluids and food produced in the stomach by contracting stomach muscles | 39 | |
| 2962246430 | pyloric spinchter | allows for passage of chyme from stomach to duodenum | 40 | |
| 2962246431 | small intestine | digestive organ in which most chemical digestion takes place, the longest part of the alimentary canal | 41 | |
| 2962246432 | duodenum | first part of small intestines, most digestion takes place here, chemicals are released from liver, gall bladder, and pancreas and act here | 42 | |
| 2962246433 | jejunum | middle portion of small intestine where chemical digestion ends and absorption begins | 43 | |
| 2962246434 | ilieum | has peyer's patches: lymphoid tissues serosa (and jejunum), last section of the small intestine | 44 | |
| 2962246435 | trypsin | The main protease secreted by the pancreas; trypsin is activated (from trypsinogen) by enterokinase, and subsequently activates other pancreatic enzymes. | 45 | |
| 2962246436 | chymotrypsin | One of the main pancreatic proteases; it is activated (from chymotrypsinogen) by trypsin. | 46 | |
| 2962246437 | carboxypeptidase | found in pancreatic juice pancreatic amylase; secreted by pancreatic acinar cells; process proteins: terminal amino acids at carboxyl end of peptides | 47 | |
| 2962246438 | aminopeptidase | An enzyme found within the small intestine that splits off one amino acid at a time, beginning at the opposite end of the polypeptide containing a free carboxyl group. | 48 | |
| 2962246439 | dipeptidases | split small peptides into amino acids | 49 | |
| 2962246440 | enteropeptidase | Enzyme in small intestine that directly or indirectly triggers activation of intestinal lumen enzymes | 50 | |
| 2962246441 | nucleases | pancreatic juice enzymes that digest nucleic acids into nucleotides | 51 | |
| 2962246442 | emulsify | break fats into smaller droplets | 52 | |
| 2962246443 | lipase | pancreatic enzyme necessary to digest fats | 53 | |
| 2962246444 | villi | Small fingerlike projections on the walls of the small intestines that increase surface area | 54 | |
| 2962246445 | microvilli | Tiny hair-like projections of the cytoplasmic membrane located only in the small intestine to facilitate absorption by increasing surface area. | 55 | |
| 2962246446 | lacteal | any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct | 56 | |
| 2962246447 | chylomicrons | fat droplets covered in protein that diffuse into capillaries in small intestine | 57 | |
| 2962246448 | hepatic portal circulation | system of blood movement through the digestive tract and liver | 58 | |
| 2962246449 | gastrin | polypeptide hormone secreted by the mucous lining of the stomach | 59 | |
| 2962246450 | enterogastrones | intestinal mucosa cells secrete this hormone that inhibit gastric gland activity during inhibitory component of intestinal phase called the enterogastric reflex | 60 | |
| 2962246451 | secretin | peptic hormone produced by the mucous lining of the small intestine | 61 | |
| 2962246452 | CCK | cholecystokinin, inhibits gastric glands, stimulates pancreas to release enzymes, stimulates GB to release bile | 62 | |
| 2962246453 | colon | the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum | 63 | |
| 2962246454 | cecum | the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | 64 | |
| 2962246455 | appendix | small pouch, which has no function in digestion, attached to the cecum | 65 | |
| 2962246456 | feces | solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | 66 | |
| 2962246457 | ruminants | An animal, such as a cow or sheep, with an elaborate, multicompartmentalized stomach specialized for an herbivorous diet. | 67 | |
| 2962246458 | rectum | The last part of the digestive tract, through which stools are eliminated | 68 |
