Digestive System- Taylor Flashcards
What is the transition between hairy skin and mucous membrane of internal mouth?
Vermilion border skin
What is the striated muscle of the lips called?
Orbicularis oris
What makes the vermilion skin a high sensory area?
Meissner’s corpuscle
What type of epi is the wet membrane?
Unkeratinized stratified squamous epi
Dermis becomes lamina propria
What type of epi is the lining of the cheeks?
Stratified nonkeratinized epi
Hard palate
Stratified squamous epi
Keratinized
Soft palate
Stratified squamous epi
Nonkeratinized at oral cavity
Pseudostratified ciliated columnar at nasopharnyx
What type of epithelium is the lining of the oropharynx?
Stratified squamous epithelium
What makes up the specialized mucosa of the dorsum?
Epithelial projections called lingual papillae
Which lingual papillae is most numerous?
Filiform papillae
What type of epi lines filigree papillae?
Keritinzed epi
No taste buds
Where are fungiform taste buds located?
On dorsal surface of fungiform papillae
Which lingual papillae are largest and least numerous?
Circumvallate papillae
Where are the circumvallate papillae located?
Anterior to sulcus terminals
Most posterior part of anterior 2/3 of tongue
What flushes the moats of the circumvallate papillae?
von Ebner’s glands