Digestive & Respiratory
Across
- 2. Structural organizational system of the resporatory system that includes nose, nasal cavitiy, and pharynx
- 4. This accessory organ neutralizes acids and releases enzymes to digest things that aren't fats
- 5. The name of this mix of food and gastric juices should ring a bell
- 11. These biomolecules are the earliest to be digested - in saliva (plural)
- 12. A muscle that keeps things from flowing out when you don't want them to
- 13. Term for the blockage of a blood vessel
- 14. Sub-division of the brochi branches (plural)
- 16. A muscle that flattens when it contracts
- 18. The type of respiration that involves gasses passing across the membrane of the lungs
- 21. The portion of your throat that starts behind your nose that warms air and contains the nasal mucosa
- 22. Tiny projections on tiny cells that project in tiny fingers in your gut
- 23. The 25cm muscular link to the stomach (and victim of acid reflux)that hangs out next to the trachea
- 24. Cartilagenous flap that prevents your dinner from ending up in your lungs
- 26. Stomach wrinkles
- 28. The longer of the two intestines
- 29. A tube shared between the respiratory and digestive systems
- 30. Your colon is full of them, and wile they're useful for fermenting things, they produce quite a stink
Down
- 1. The digestive phase that starts with small or sight and starts your mouth watering
- 3. Wormy or wave-like contractions to get stuff from point A to point B
- 4. The term when gas is exchanged between peripheral tissues and the blood
- 6. The type of digestion that relies on chewing and peristaltic motion
- 7. This inactive protein would love nothing more than to wreck the day of other proteins in your tummy
- 8. The gas passed from lungs to the blood
- 9. Another word for 'nostril'
- 10. The lower portion of the stomach
- 15. The start of the large intestine
- 17. THe formal word for chewing
- 19. A windpipe by any other name, formed from not-quite rings of cartilage
- 20. Grape-like sacs within the pulmonary lobule
- 25. The digestive phase that makes you feel full
- 27. An organ that secretes and stores stuff foisted on it by the liver