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What sorts or substances pass into the lacteal inside the villi?
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Lacteals are lymphatic vessels that absorb mostly fats and other nutrients from the small intestine. It closely resembles blood plasma in composition but has a lower percentage of protein and is isotonic.
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What structure in villi absorbs and transports fats?
Lacteal absorbs fatty acids. Glycerol is absorbed by both , blood capillaries and lacteal .
What body system is the lacteal found?
The lacteal is found in the small intestine. It serves the purpose of absorbing fats from the gut into the bloodstream.
The small intestine is covered in millions of villi what are villi and what is their job?
Villi are fingerlike projection from a surface and in the intestine they are one cell thick with blood vessels and lacteal. The funciton is to increase the surface area of the intestine and so increasing the ammount of absorption.
What is inside a villi?
Villi are found in the small intestine. They help in increasing the surface area of the small intestine.
What does the villi absorb nutrients from the small intestine to?
Most nutrients are absorbed directly into the blood but fats are taken into the lacteal (part of the lymphatic system)
What is a villi job?
Villi absorb food into the blood from inside the intestines
What is the difference between a villi and microvilli?
Both are found inside the small intestine, are microscopic, and are used to increase the surface area of the small intestine. Villi are tiny microscopic folds in the small intestine lining. Microvilli are little hairlike projections from individual epithelial cells of the small intestine. They have capillaries and a lacteal that lead to the circulatory and lymph systems to transport nutrients that are absorbed.
Where are the fatty acids and glycerol transported to once absorbed by the lacteals?
A lacteal is a lymphatic capillary that absorbs dietary fats in the villi by the enzyme lipase, resulting in a mixture of fatty acids and monoglycerides.
What are the tiny fingerlike projections inside the small intestine called?
The finger like projections that line the small intestine are called, Villi.
What increase the free surface area of epithelium that absorb substances?
Villi and microvilli.
What is found inside of the intestine that helps with absorption?
the villi
What substances in the small intestine of humans serve to increase the surface area for absorption?
Villi
