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What is the serous membrane that is the external layer of a GI tract organ?
The serous membrane that is the external layer of a GI tract organ is called the visceral peritoneum. It is a thin, smooth membrane that covers the organs within the abdominal cavity and helps to reduce friction between them as they move and function.
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
The layer of the digestive tract that is composed of stratified and columnar epithelium?
The layer of the digestive tract that is composed of stratified and columnar epithelium is called the mucosa. This layer is responsible for absorbing nutrients from digested food and protecting the digestive tract from harmful substances.
What is the lower opening of the digestive tract?
The lower opening of the digestive tract is called the anus. It is where waste material from the body is expelled during the process of defecation.
What is the serous membrane that is the external layer of a GI tract organ?
The serous membrane that is the external layer of a GI tract organ is called the visceral peritoneum. It is a thin, smooth membrane that covers the organs within the abdominal cavity and helps to reduce friction between them as they move and function.
Most organs of the digestive tract are held in place by a stretchable membrane called the?
peritoneum
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.
Is it safe to feed dogs chicken bones?
No. Chicken bones splinter easily. These splinters can cause serous injury to the digestive tract.
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 layer of the digestive tract wall that forms villi in the small intestine?
mucous membrane or mucosa
What stageof food processingwhe a substance must leave the digestive tract and cross a membrane?
Absorption
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 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.
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).
Muscular contractions of digestive tract?
this is called Peristalsis
What type of membrane junction is a example of tight junction?
Junctions among epithelial cells lining the digestive tract.
