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What is the wide tube of muscles connected to your small intestines called?
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These muscles are called the tunica muscularis.
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What are the ends of small intestines?
The small intestines are connected to the stomach and the large intestine. The spot where the large intestine is connected to the small intestine is called the cecum. A typical colonoscopy will go up to but not beyond the cecum.
What is the wide tube of muscles connected to your small intestine?
These muscles are called the tunica muscularis.
How is the gallbladder connected to the small intestines?
through bile duct.
What are the muscles in the small intestine called?
The muscles in the intestines are not named, specifically. There are circumferential muscle layers and longitudinal muscle layers in the intestines. These muscle layers create the peristalsis that moves food and digestive products through the intestinal tract. If you are asking the names of the muscles of the abdominal wall, they are the rectus abdominis, internal and external obliques, and the transverse abdominal muscles.
What is the end of the small intestines called?
duodenum
What small finger-like projections are in the small intestines?
they are called villi
What are the small bumps in the small intestines that absorb food called?
Villi
What is a wavelike motion that pushes food downward?
the muscles in your esophagus push your food down into your small intestines
Howcome feces do not return back in the stomach?
Because the small and large intestines are made up of smooth muscles that continually move feces in one direction. This is called peristalsis.
What is the mesentery that surrounds the small intestines called?
The omentum.
Are the ends of small intestines called the ilea?
ilea
What are the small hair like organs lining the small intestines called?
villi
