Digestive System II Flashcards
What are the four layers of the GI tract?
1) mucosa (mucous membrane)
2) submucosa
3) Muscularis externa
4) Adventitia or Serosa
What is the thin covering or sac that holds all the intestines and organs in place in the torso of the body?
mesentaries
The inner layer of the GI tract, the mucosa, is composed of what three layers (from innermost to outermost)?
1) epithelium
2) lamina propria
3) muscularis mucosae
The third layer of the GI tract, the musculari externa, is composed of what two layers (from innermost to outermost)?
1) inner circular layer
2) outer longitudinal layer
The external layer of the GI tract, the adevntitia or serosa, is composed of what?
1) areolar tissue
2) mesothelium
Which layer of the GI tract wall is composed of smooth muscle?
muscularis externa
What are the two nerve plexi in the GI tract wall?
1) submucosal nerve plexus
2) myenteric nerve plexus
What is the nervous system the controls the gut called?
Enteric nervous system
Which nerve plexus of the ENS regulates mucosal tension and folding, and secretion of mucosal glands?
submucosal nerve plexus
Which nerve plexus regulates peristalsis of the submucosal plexus?
myenteric plexus
The esophagus extends from which two functioning points at the cardiac orifice?
From the upper esphogeal sphincter to the lower esophogeal sphincter
What kind of epithelium makes up the esophagus?
nonkeratinized stratified squamos epithelium
Which two glands are found in the esophagus?
1) mucous submucosal glands
2) esophageal glands
The muscularis externa has an inner ____ muscle layer and an outer ____ muscle layer.
circular; longitudinal
Which layer in the esophagus are esophageal glands located?
lamina propria
What is the boundary located between the submucosal glands and the esophageal glands?
gastroesophageal junction
What are folds within the stomach called that grind chunks of food?
gastric rugae
Food enters into the stomach from the ____ and exits the stomach through the ____.
esophagus; duodenum
The muscular layers of the stomach are found in what layer?
muscularis externa
What is the mucous layer of the stomach composed of?
1) epithelium
2) gastric pits
3) glands
4) lamina propria
5) muscularis mucosae
What is the submucosa layer of the stomach composed of?
1) connective tissue
2) blood vessels
3) submucosal plexus
What is the muscularis externa layer of the stomach composed of?
1) three muscle layers
2) myenteric plexus
Which special cells are associated with gastric pits (two kinds)?
parietal cells and goblet cells
Which kind of epithelium are gastric pits lined with?
simple columnar epithelium
What opens into the base of each gastric pit?
gastric glands
Which kind of glands dominate the stomach? Why is this?
mucous glands; it helps prevent corrosion
What are the three glands found in the stomach?
1) cardiac glands
2) pyloric glands
3) gastric glands
Which glands of the stomach are composed of shallow gastric pits, a long gland, and is purely mucous? Which region are they found?
cardiac glands; cardiac region
Which glands of the stomach have deep gastric pits, are shorter glands, are loosely arrayed in the lamina propria, and are purely mucous? What region are they found?
pyloric glands; pyloric region
Which glands of the stomach have a mouth, neck, body, and fundus and have five types of cells? What region are they found?
gastric glands; fundus, body, and most of the pyloric region
What are the five cells of the gastric glands?
1) stem (regenerative) cells
2) mucous neck cells
3) parietal (oxyntic) cells
4) chief (zymogenic) cells
5) enteroendocrine cells
Which two cells of the gastric glands secrete proteins?
- parietal (oxyntic) cells
- chief (zymogenic) cells