Digestive System Anatomy

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Across
  1. 2. It's main paracrine function is to slow GI motility in the stomach and intestines
  2. 5. Muscle type that squeezes food through the GI tract
  3. 7. An antidepressant that works by increasing levels of dopamine and serotonin is likely to cause what change in gastric function?
  4. 8. What controls the contractions of the muscularis externa layer?
  5. 11. Hollow internal tube where digestive functions take place
  6. 13. The trigger of the enterogastric reflex
  7. 14. What kind of stimulation increases speed of gastric motility?
  8. 15. What is the innermost layer of the wall of alimentary canal organs?
  9. 16. _____ signals travel through the blood
Down
  1. 1. The receptive relaxation reflex is an example of what kind of reflex?
  2. 3. A branch of the ANS formed by the myenteric plexus and submucosal plexus
  3. 4. A condition in which the gastric pacemaker fails and food is retained in the stomach
  4. 6. Type of digestion that breaks down nutrients in chyme into individual molecular units
  5. 9. The main form of gastric motility
  6. 10. The esophagus is composed of skeletal muscle directly controlled by what?
  7. 12. The pancreas is an example of a _________ digestive organ