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Digestive System (Accessory Digestive Organs (Liver (Filter toxins from…
Digestive System
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Mesentery
Functions
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Ability to migrate, wrap around, and enclose and infected or inflamed organ.
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Locations
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Greater Omentum
Connected to the greater curvature, drapes over the abdominal organs and comes back up over the transverse colon to the posterior abdominal wall
Stomach
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Gastric Glands
Parietal Cells/Glands
Produce hydrochloric acid and intrinsic factor which is needed to absorb vitamin B12 which is needed to produce erythrocytes
Chief Cells/Glands
Secrets pepsinogen which when mixed with acid from parietal cells becomes pepsin which is an enzyme that breaks down proteins
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Small Intestine
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Features
Circular Folds, Villi, Microvilli
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