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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

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