Digestive System + Body Metabolism

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Across
  1. 3. Material that covers the tooth root
  2. 6. A food chute; has no digestive or absorptive role
  3. 8. Common passage for food and air
  4. 9. Organ that mixes food in the mouth
  5. 10. Projections of the plasma membrane of a cell that increase the cell's surface area
  6. 12. Organ in wich protein digestion begins
  7. 16. Produces bile, which is transported to the duodenum via the bile duct
  8. 19. The first set of teeth
  9. 20. Forms the bulk of the tooth structure
Down
  1. 1. Folds the stomach mucosa
  2. 2. Saclike outpocketings of the large intestine wall
  3. 4. Structure that suspends the small intestine from the posterior
  4. 5. A collection of blood vessels, lyphatics, and nerve fibers
  5. 7. Ducts a variety of enzymes in an alkaline fluid into the duodenum
  6. 11. Area between the teeth and lips/cheeks
  7. 13. Organ primarily involved in water absorption and feces formation
  8. 14. Blind sac hanging from the initial part of the colon
  9. 15. The most posterior molars in each jaw are commonly called __ teeth
  10. 17. Fingerlike extensions of the intestinal mucosa the increase the surface area
  11. 18. Cells that produce this substance degenerate after tooth eruption