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What is the serous membrane that is the external layer of a GI tract organ?
Because internal organs are called viscera, the portion of the serous membrane that attached to an organ is called the visceral layer.
What is the thick slippery substances produced by the body that makes food move more easily through digestive system?
This is called mucous. You make about one liter per day in the digestive tract. You also make some in the respiratory tract, urinary tract and the reproductive tract. Any system that has a connection to the outside makes mucous. All others (internal organs) make serous fluid as a sort of bath.
What is the covering membrane of the kidney?
Mucosa is a mucous membrane that lines the inside of the tract from mouth to anus. Depending upon the section of the digestive tract, it protects the GI tract wall, secretes substances, and absorbs the end products of digestion. It also surrounds the large and small intestines, and other vital organs in the human body
Which type of membrane junction is an example of a tight junction?
Junctions among epithelial cells lining the digestive tract.
What is taking chemicals into the body through the digestive tract called?
Eating
What is the serous membrane that is the external layer of a GI tract organ?
Because internal organs are called viscera, the portion of the serous membrane that attached to an organ is called the visceral layer.
What are the sheets of peritoneal membrane that hold the digestive tract in place?
mesenterymesenteriesThe sheets of peritoneal membrane that hold the digestive tract in place are called mesenteries. The innermost tissue layer of the alimentary canal is the mucosa.
Most organs of the digestive tract are held in place by a stretchable membrane called the?
peritoneum
Is it safe to feed dogs chicken bones?
No. Chicken bones splinter easily. These splinters can cause serous injury to the digestive tract.
What membranes are called wet membranes?
Mucous membranes or mucosae are "wet" membranes. This is because they are continously bathed by secretions, except the mucous membranes of the urinary tract that is continously bathed with urine. Mucous, serous, and synovial
What is the thick slippery substances produced by the body that makes food move more easily through digestive system?
This is called mucous. You make about one liter per day in the digestive tract. You also make some in the respiratory tract, urinary tract and the reproductive tract. Any system that has a connection to the outside makes mucous. All others (internal organs) make serous fluid as a sort of bath.
What stageof food processingwhe a substance must leave the digestive tract and cross a membrane?
Absorption
What is the layer of the digestive tract wall that forms villi in the small intestine?
mucous membrane or mucosa
What is the covering membrane of the kidney?
Mucosa is a mucous membrane that lines the inside of the tract from mouth to anus. Depending upon the section of the digestive tract, it protects the GI tract wall, secretes substances, and absorbs the end products of digestion. It also surrounds the large and small intestines, and other vital organs in the human body
What type of epithelial tissue lines the respiratory tract?
Any body area that has an outlet to the out side is covered in a mucous membrane: respiratory tact. digestive tract, urinary tract, even the membrane that surrounds the orbit of the eye (eye ball).
What is the layer of connective tissue beneath the mucous membrane in the wall of the digestive tract?
The mucosa consists of the epithelium itself and also the supporting loose connective tissue, called lamina propria, immediately beneath the epithelium.
Which type of membrane junction is an example of a tight junction?
Junctions among epithelial cells lining the digestive tract.
