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The finger-like projections in the small intestines are called villi & they are present in the small intestine to increase the surface area of the intestinal wall. A greater surface area allows the intestines to absorb more nutrients from the digested food into the blood stream. Villi are prominent in the small intestines because this is where majority of the absorption of nutrients occur. Villi also play a small role in the digestion of food.
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What are fingerlike projections in the small intestines called?
Fingerlike projections in the small intestine are called villi
What are the fingerlike projections that capture ova called?
fimbriae
What are fingerlike muscular projections from the ventricles?
papillary muscles
What are the fingerlike projections that greatly increase the surface are of cells?
stereocilia
What is a pair of tubes with fingerlike projections?
Fallopian tubes. They have got fimbriated ends with finger like projections.
The lining of the small intestine is covered with fingerlike projections called?
It is the Villi
Fingerlike projections in the intestines that absorb food?
-Villi The first answer is correct in the villi are very small finger like projections in the intestines but I would suspect the question refers to the appendix.
What fingerlike projections lining the small intestine that absorb food into the bloodstream?
Villi
What are tiny fingerlike projections that cover the folds of the small intestines?
Villi. Also the Villi are covered in Micro-villi - just the same but smaller. The function of them is to increase surface area for absorption.
What are fingerlike projections that absorb nutrients called?
intestinal villi (singular: villus)
Fringed fingerlike extensions that catch the ovum?
The finger like projections are called fimbrae
What is pair of tubes with fingerlike projections that draw in the egg called?
The tubes are called as fallopian tubes.
