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what is The layer of the digestive tract that secretes mucus into the lumen called?
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What organs comprise the tube of the digestive system?
From the esophagus to the anus, the digestive is basically a tube very similar to other tubular organs in the body. All such tubular organs are composed of several tissue layers arranged around a lumen. In a "generic" tubular organ, these layers are as follows (from the lumen to the ablumenal layer).
The second layer surrounding the lumen?
Submucosa
What subsection that follows the digestive system?
The urinary and digestive systems are not connected in a single lumen. The digestive system ends with the anus.
What is the internal space of a blood vessel called?
called lumen
The subcutaneous oil glands in the scalp secretes in which way?
The subcutaneous oil glands in the scalp secretes via holocrine. Holocrine indicates a membrane rupture which destroys the cell and results in the secretion into the lumen.
Which system has a lumen in its internal environment?
The digestive system features lumen in the gastrointestinal tract. Absorption is the passage of digested end products from the lumen of the GI tract through the mucosal cells into the blood or lymph.
What is tunica interna?
It lines the lumen of the vessels, and is a thin layer of endothelium.
Would the blood vessels carry digestive juices to the digestive system?
Blood vessels do not carry digestive juices to the digestive system. Digestive juices are either secreted directly into the lumen of the digestive tract, or are carried by ducts, as with bile and pancreatic juice.
Smooth inner layer than surrounds the lumen of a blood vessel?
endothelium
Which layer of the intestinal wall will first absorb nutrients from the lumen?
longitudinal muscle
What is the lumen of the GI tract?
The gastric lumen is the watery space that fills the stomach. Digestive enzymes and juices are secreted from the oxyntic mucosa and Pyloric Gland Area into the gastric lumen. The Fundus, Body and Anterum are the "sections" of the stomach.
When epithelial tissue is a single layer its called?
The portion of the cell exposed to the lumen. The layer of plasma membrane on the apical side (side towards the lumen) of the epithelial cells in a body tube or cavity, separated from the basolateral membrane by the zonula occludens.- thefreedictionary.com
