digestive system

Cards (6)

  • Ingestion: the taking of substances, e.g. food and drink, into the body
  • digestion: the breakdown of food
  • Absorption: the movement of nutrients from the intestines into the blood
  • Assimilation: uptake and use of nutrients by cells
  • Egestion: the removal of undigested food from the body as faeces
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    A) mouth
    B) teeth
    C) salivary glands
    D) oesophagus
    E) liver
    F) stomach
    G) gallbladder
    H) pancreas
    I) large intestine
    J) small intestine
    K) rectum
    L) anus