Kirsty Hughes
Digestion Labels
Mouth and salivary glands - glands with ducts that produce saliva.
Parotid gland – the largest of the glands that are located if front of and below each ear.
Esophagus - sometimes known as the gullet, is a muscular tube which food passes from the
pharynx to the stomach.
Liver – large reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the
abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein, carbohydrate and fat.
Gallbladder - a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile until it is needed for
digestion.
Duodenum - the part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum.
Spleen - a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and
the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses.
Jejunum - the part of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum.
Ileum - the part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum.
Ascending colon - the part of the large intestine that ascends from the cecum to the
transverse colon.
Cecum - the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens.
Stomach - an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal
organ of digestion.
Pancreas - a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach.
Transverse colon - part of the large intestine that extends across the abdominal cavity and
joins the ascending to the descending colon.
Descending colon - the part of the large intestine that descends from the transverse colon to
the sigmoid colon.
Sigmoid – curved in two directions like the letter ‘S’, relates to the sigmoid flexure in the
large intestine.
Rectum - the terminal section of the alimentary canal; from the sigmoid flexure to the anus.
Anus - the excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal.