Digestive tract Flashcards
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Parietal peritoneum
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Lines the body wall
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Peritoneum
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Double layered serous membrane that covers abdominal & pelvic cavities
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Visceral peritoneum
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Covers organs
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Mesentry
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Attaches an organ to the body wall
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Omentum
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Attaches one organ to another
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Intraperitoneal organs
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Fully covered eg stomache
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Retroperitoneal
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Organs pushed up against posterior abdominal wall only partly covered eg pancreas
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HCL
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Kills microbes, Breakdown meat + plants
Activates pepsinogen by converting it to pepsin
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Pepsin
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Starts protein digestion
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Gastrin
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Stimulates secretion of pepsinogen & HCL
