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| Metabolizes fat, proteins and glucose; helps in immune system |
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| Stores and concentrates bile |
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| Acts as storage site for foos and begins protein digestion |
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| Major Major site for digestion and absorption of nutrients |
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| Forms and stores feces, reabsorbes water, electrolytes, lipid-soluble vitamins |
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| Destroys old red blood cells; stores platelets; produces cells that produce antibodies in immunesystem |
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| Produces oocytes and hormones like estrogen and progesterone |
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| Site of fetal development; provides nutrients to the embryo |
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| The excange of gases occurs here |
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| Site of intellect, emotion, behavior ad memory |
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| Conducts impulses between body and brain; site of many body reflexes |
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| Produces sperm and hormones like testosterone |
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| Suppors the body; protects orgains |
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| Protects underlying tissues from dessication, pathogens, uv light; produces vitamin D;regulates body temp |
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| Contracts to move the body or fluids through the body; generates heat |
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| Carries blood away from the heart |
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| carries blood to the heart |
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| Regulates carbohydrate metabolism; produces digestive enzymes |
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| Filters toxins and other wastes from blood to form urine |
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| Filters lymph to trap pathogens |
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| Contacts to aid in breathing |
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