Digestive System
Cards (14)
- forms the roof of the mouth
- v- shaped mass that hangs at the roof of the back of the mouth
- performs the swallowing action that passes food from the mouth to the esophagus
- tube that extends from the pharynx to the mouth
- container for food
- lower bulge of the stomach
- ring of muscles that guards the opening between the stomach and the duodenum
- twenty-foot canal extending from the pyloric sphincter to the large intestine
- first 10 to 12 inches of the small intestine
- second portion of the small intestine, about 8 feet long

- third portion of the small intestine, about 11 feet long
- canal that is 5 feet long and extends from the ileum to the anus
- first portion of the large intestine
- next portion of the large intestine