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Is your esophagus a muscle or an organ?
The esophagus is an organ, as it is made up of a number of tissue types working together for a purpose. Muscle is the most significant part of the esophagus, but it also contains mucosa and connective tissue.
What is Barrett's Esophagus?
Barrett's esophagus is a complication of gastroesophageal reflux disease. In Barrett's esophagus, normal tissue lining the esophagus changes to tissue that resembles the lining of the intestine. This condition primarily occurs in white men.
Is the linning of the esophagus simple columnar?
No, Stratified Squamous epithelium tissue lines the esophagus.
What type of epithelial tissue is found in the esophagus?
Pseudostratified columnar cells line the inside of the trachea and simple squamous cells make up the alveoli
What types of epithelial tissue lines the esophagus?
Squamous
What tissue types form the wall of the esophagus?
The wall of the esophagus is composed of four layers: mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, and adventitia or serosa. The mucosa layer is made up of epithelial tissue, the submucosa layer contains connective tissue with blood vessels and nerves, the muscularis externa layer is composed of smooth muscle tissue, and the outermost layer is adventitia in most parts of the esophagus and serosa in the abdominal part.
What type of tissue in esophagus?
The esophagus is made up of tissue is stratisfied squamous and cuboidal. The cuboidal tissue is in cubes, the width is the same as the height. The trachea has tissue made up of Pseudostrasified epithelia cells and is columnar, higher in height than width
What does surgery for a tracheoesophageal fistula involve?
the esophagus is reconnected to make it continuous and separate from the trachea. If the two ends of the esophagus are too far apart to be reattached, a piece of tissue from the large intestine is used to join the parts.
How does a human esophagus work?
The esophagus is made up of smooth muscle tissue. To swallow food down to the stomach, the tissue that is above the food in the esophagus contracts while the tissue below it loosens, allowing food to slide down. This is all involuntary.Biology/Chemistry Major
Do tissue made up of similar types of cells carry out the same type functions?
tissue make up muscle tissue. bone cell grouped together make up nerve bone tissue.
What do similar cells make up?
Cells of the same kind make a tissue.
How does tissue make up an organ?
yes the tissue does make up an organ, but it has to be a special type of tissue too make that certain organ it joins up with other tissues and than forms an organ
