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Digestive System

The document outlines the functions and anatomy of the digestive system, including the roles of various organs such as the mouth, stomach, small intestine, and liver. It details the digestive process, including digestion, propulsion, absorption, and defecation, as well as the digestion of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. Additionally, it describes the structure and function of the digestive organs and their associated processes.

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Digestive System

The document outlines the functions and anatomy of the digestive system, including the roles of various organs such as the mouth, stomach, small intestine, and liver. It details the digestive process, including digestion, propulsion, absorption, and defecation, as well as the digestion of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. Additionally, it describes the structure and function of the digestive organs and their associated processes.

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DIGESTIVE

SYSTEM

Romel M. Durante, RN, MAN ( C )


Clinical Instructor
Functions
1. Take in food
2. Break down food
3. Absorb digested materials
4. Provide nutrients
5. Eliminate waste

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Pharynx
(throat)

Oral cavity Salivary


(mouth) glands
Esophagus
Stomach

Pancreas
Small
Liver intestine
Gallbladder Large
intestine

Appendix

Rectum
Anus

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Layers of Digestive System
• Digestive system is one large tube from
mouth to anus plus the accessory organs
1. Mucosa:
- innermost layer
- secretes mucus
2. Submucosa:
- above mucosa
- contains blood vessels, nerves, small
glands
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3. Muscularis:
- above submucosa
- longitudinal, circular, and oblique
muscles
4. Serosa/adventitia:
- outermost layer
- peritoneum is present called serosa
- no peritoneum then called adventitia (Ex.
Esophagus)

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Peritoneum
• Layer of smooth epithelial tissue
• Mesenteries:
connective tissue of organs in abdominal cavity
• Lesser omentum:
mesentery connecting lesser curvature of stomach
to liver and diaphragm
• Greater omentum:
mesentery connecting greater curvature of
stomach to transverse colon and posterior body
wall

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Oral Cavity
• First part of digestive system
• Contains stratified squamous epithelia
• Salivary glands:
- produce saliva which contains enzymes
to breakdown carbohydrates into glucose
- cleanse mouth
- dissolve and moisten food

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• Amylase:
salivary enzyme that breaks down
carbohydrates

• Lysozyme:
salivary enzymes that are active against
bacteria

• Tongue:
house taste buds and mucus

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Teeth
• 32 teeth in normal adult
• Incisors, canine, premolars, molars, wisdom
• 20 primary teeth (baby teeth)
• Each tooth has crown, cusp, neck, root
• Center of tooth is pulp cavity
• Enamel is hard covering protects against
abrasions
• Cavities are breakdown of enamel by acids from
bacteria

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Figure 16.5

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Palate
• Palate:
roof of oral cavity

• Hard palate:
anterior part

• Soft palate:
posterior part

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Salivary Glands
• Salivary Glands:
- includes submandibular, sublingual,
parotid
- produce saliva contains enzymes to
breakdown food
- mumps is inflammation of parotid gland

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Pharynx
• Throat

• Connects mouth to esophagus

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Esophagus
• Tube that connects pharynx to stomach
• Transport food to stomach
• Joins stomach at cardiac opening
• Heartburn:
- occurs when gastric juices regurgitate into
esophagus
- caused by caffeine, smoking, or eating or
drinking in excess
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Swallowing
• Voluntary phase:
bolus (mass of food) formed in mouth and
pushed into oropharynx
• Pharyngeal phase:
swallowing reflex initiated when bolus
stimulates receptors in oropharynx
• Esophageal phase:
moves food from pharynx to stomach
• Peristalsis:
involuntary/wave-like contractions moves
bolus/food through digestive tract
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Stomach
• Located in abdomen
• Storage tank for food
• Can hold up to 2 liters of food
• Produces mucus, hydrochloric acid, protein
digesting enzymes
• Contains a thick mucus layer that lubricates
and protects epithelial cells on stomach wall
form acidic pH

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• 3 muscular layers:
outer longitudinal, middle circular, and inner
oblique to produce churning action

• Rugae:
large folds that allow stomach to stretch

• Chyme:
paste-like substance that forms when food
begins to be broken down
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• Pyloric opening:
opening between stomach and small
intestine
• Pyloric sphincter:
thick, ring of smooth muscle around pyloric
opening
• Hunger pangs:
stomach is stimulated to contract by low
blood glucose levels usually 12-24 hours
after a meal

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Regulation of Stomach Secretions

• Parasympathetic stimulation, gastrin,


histamine increase stomach secretions
• Cephalic phase:
- 1st phase
- stomach secretions are initiated by sight,
smell, taste, or food thought

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• Gastric phase:
- 2nd phase
- partially digested proteins and distention
of stomach promote secretion

• Intestinal phase:
- 3rd phase
- acidic chyme stimulates neuronal reflexes
and secretions of hormones that inhibit
gastric secretions by negative feedback
loops
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Movement in Stomach
• Mixing waves:
- weak contraction
- thoroughly mix food to form chyme
• Peristaltic contraction/waves:
- stronger contraction
- force chyme toward and through pyloric
sphincter to small intestine
• Hormonal and neural mechanisms stimulate
stomach secretions
• Stomach empties every 4 hours after regular
meal, and 6-8 hours after high fatty meal
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Small Intestine
• Measures 6 meters in length
• Major absorptive organ (most nutrient
absorption occurs)
• Chyme takes 3-5 hours to pass through
• Contains enzymes to further breakdown
food
• Contains secretions for protection against
chyme’s acidity

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Parts of Small Intestine
• Duodenum:
- 25 cm long
- contains absorptive cells, goblet cells,
granular cells, endocrine cells
- contains microvilli and many folds
- contains bile and pancreatic ducts
• Jejunum:
2.5 meters long and absorbs nutrients
• Ileum:
3.5 meters long
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Large Intestine
• Function is to absorb water from indigestible
food
• Contains cecum, colon, rectum, anal canal
• Cecum:
- joins small intestine at ileocecal junction
- has appendix attached
• Appendix:
9 cm structure that is often removed

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• Colon:
- 1.5 meters long
- contains ascending, transverse, descending,
sigmoid regions

• Rectum:
straight tube that begins at sigmoid and ends at
anal canal

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• Anal canal:
last 2-3 cm of dig. tract

• Food takes 18-24 hours to pass through

• Feces is product of water, indigestible food,


and microbes

• Microbes synthesize vitamin K

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Liver Anatomy
• Weighs about 3 lbs.
• In right upper quadrant of abdomen under
diaphragm
• Right, left, caudate, quadrate lobes
• Porta:
gate where blood vessels, ducts, nerves enter
and exit
• Receives blood from hepatic artery

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• Lobules:
divisions of liver with portal triads at corners

• Portal triad:
contain hepatic artery, hepatic portal vein,
hepatic duct

• Hepatic cords:
- between center margins of each lobule
- separated by hepatic sinusoids

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• Hepatic sinusoids:
contain phagocytic cells that remove
foreign particles from blood

• Central vein:
- center of each lobule
- where mixed blood flows towards
- forms hepatic veins

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Liver Ducts
• Hepatic duct:
transport bile out of liver
• Common hepatic duct:
formed from left and right hepatic duct
• Cystic duct:
- joins common hepatic duct
- from gallbladder
• Common bile duct:
formed from common hepatic duct and cystic
duct
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Gallbladder
• Small sac on inferior surface of liver

• Stores and concentrates bile

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Functions of Liver
• Digestive and excretory functions
• Stores and processes nutrients
• Detoxifies harmful chemicals
• Synthesizes new molecules
• Secretes 700ml of bile each day
• Bile:
dilutes and neutralizes stomach acid and
breaks down fats

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Pancreas
• Located posterior to stomach in inferior
part of left upper quadrant
• Head near midline of body
• Tail extends to left and touches spleen
• Endocrine tissues have pancreatic islet
that produce insulin and glucagon
• Exocrine tissues produce digestive
enzymes

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Digestive Process
1. Digestion:
breakdown of food occurs in stomach and
mouth
2. Propulsion:
moves food through digestive tract includes
swallowing and peristalsis
3. Absorption:
primarily in duodenum and jejunum of small
intestine
4. Defecation:
elimination of waste in the form of feces
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Carbohydrate Digestion
• Polysaccharides split into disaccharides by
salivary and pancreatic amylases
• Disacchardies broken down into
monosaccharides by disaccharidases on
surface of intestinal epithelium
• Glucose is absorbed by cotransport with
Na+ into intestinal epithelium
• Glucose is carried by hepatic portal vein to
liver and enters most cells by facilitated
diffusion
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Lipid Digestion
• Bile salts emulsify lipids
• Lipase breaks down lipids which form
micelles
• Micelles are in contact with intestinal epi.
and diffuse with cells where they are
packaged and released into lacteals
• Lipids are stored in adipose tissue and
liver

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Proteins Digestion
• Proteins are split into polypeptides by
enzymes secreted by stomach and
pancreas
• Peptides and amino acids are absorbed
into intestinal epi. cells
• Amino acids are actively transported into
cells (help from GH and insulin)
• Amino acids used to build new proteins

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Water and Minerals
• Water can move across intestinal wall in
either direction
• Depends on osmotic conditions
• 99% of water entering intestine is
absorbed
• Minerals are actively transported across
wall of small intestine

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