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Chapter 9: Digestive System

Horizontales
Allows the stomach to expand when it is filled with food.
Forms the bulk of the tooth.
Also called chewing the cud
This is the center of the tooth that contains nerves and blood capillaries.
The process of breaking down the food into small chemical units.
Complex stomach consisting of four chambers.
Functions the same as the monogastric stomach.
Area where the crown and root of the tooth meet.
Alternating contractions of the circular muscles in the intestine.
Also known as megaesophagus
The process of taking food into the body.
Is the removal of any remaining indigestible material.
Prestomach chambers in a ruminant animal. Includes the reticulum, rumen, and omasum.
Longest part of the small intestine.
Theses animals eat only plants.
These teeth are present in the jaw at birth and are smaller and whiter.
This is the tip of the root where the blood vessels enter the tooth.
Verticales
Pattern of muscle contractions that propels food through the GI tract.
Takes up most of the left side of the abdominal cavity in ruminants.
This is a dental numbering system.
Is the process whereby the chemical units pass into the blood and are carried to the liver.
Suspends intestines from the abdominal wall.
Also called chewing.
Anaerobic oxidative decomposition of cellulose into simpler compounds, such as volatile fatty acids.
These teeth grow continually.
Belching
Is the process in which the chemical units are converted into energy for use by all the organs of the body.
Muscular tube that connects the pharynx to the stomach.
Hardest substance in the body.
Part of the stomach that expands during a large meal.
These cells secrete insulin