Anatomy For Beginners - Digestion
Video Worksheet
This episode of the Anatomy for Beginner series, hosted by Dr. Gunther von Hagans, gives students another perspective on the digestive system. He takes a simulated piece of food and traces its path through the body of a cadaver. He dissects out the entire digestive tract, including the esophagus, epiglottis, stomach, and intestines. The episode concludes with the stretching out of the entire human intestinal tract, ending up at a total of 7 meters.
Essential concepts: Chemical digestion, mechanical digestion, enzymes, amylase, pepsin, trypsin, lipase, salivary glands, esophagus, epiglottis, stomach, small intestines, large intestines, appendix, rectum.
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