Digestive System - 2 Crossword Puzzle

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QUESTIONS LIST: oropharynx: the middle part of the throat, behind the mouth, laryngopharynx: he most caudal portion of the pharynx and is a crucial connection point through which food, water, and air pass, epiglottis: its main function is to close over the windpipe (trachea) while you're eating to prevent food entering your airway, hiatus: the esophageal _ is the opening in the diaphragm through which the esophagus passes from the thoracic to the abdominal cavity, sphincter: the esophageal _ is a ring of muscle fibers in the lower esophagus prevents swallowed food from moving back up, stomach: it takes in food from the esophagus (gullet or food pipe), mixes it, breaks it down, and then passes it on to the small intestine in small portions, chyme: the acidic fluid which passes from the stomach to the small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partly digested food, liver: this organ filters all of the blood in the body and breaks down poisonous substances, such as alcohol and drugs, commonhepatic: the _ duct is a tube that carries bile from the liver (2 words), cystic: the _ duct is the duct that (typically) joins the gallbladder and the common hepatic duct, gallbladder: a small, pear-shaped organ on the right side of your abdomen, just beneath your liver, bile: a fluid that is made and released by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, bilirubin: a yellowish substance made during your body's normal process of breaking down old red blood cells.