Digestive System and Organs Functions: Labeled Diagram

Digestive System and Organs Functions: Labeled Diagram

Digestive system labeled diagram and function of each organ involved in digestion. Illustrating how digestive system work by organ, how is this made up of, which organ function works properly to digest food explained in digestive system infographic step by step:

Mouth

  • Breaks up food particles
  • Assists in producing spoken language
  • Salivary glands

  • Saliva moistens and lubricates food
  • Amylase digests polysaccharides
  • Pharynx

  • Swallows food
  • Esophagus

  • Transports food
  • Stomach

  • Stores and chums food
  • Pepsin digest protein
  • HCl activates enzymes, breaks up food, kills germs
  • Mucus protects stomach wall - - Limited absorption
  • Liver

  • Breaks down and builds up many biological molecules
  • Store vitamins and iron
  • Destroys old blood cells
  • Destroys poisons
  • Bile aside in digestion
  • Gallbladder

  • Stores and concentrates bile
  • Pancreas

  • Hormones regulate blood glucose levels
  • Bicarbonates neutralize stomach acid
  • Trypsin and chymotrypsin digest proteins
  • Amylase digests polysaccharides
  • Lipase digests lipids
  • Small Intestine

  • Completes digestion
  • Mucus protects gut wall
  • Absorbs nutrients, most water
  • Peptidase digests proteins
  • Sucrases digest sugars
  • Amylase digests polysachharides
  • Large Intestine

  • Reabsorbs some water and ions
  • Forms and stores faces
  • Rectum

  • Stores and expels faces
  • Anus

  • Opening for elimination of faces
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