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Oral cavity

Where ingestion and fragmentation occurs

Stomach

Where digedtion is initiated

Small intestine

Where digestion is completed (main absorptive process)

Must know

Must know: liquid residue from small intestine progressively becomes solid as water is absorbed until it passes to the anal canal via elimination

Mucosa


Submucosa


Muscular is propria/externa


Adventitia/ Serosa

4 functional layers of GI tract from esophagus to anus

Muscularis mucosae

Thin smooth muscle layer that demarcates upper lamina propria from underlying submucosa

Submucosa

Layer of GI: loose collagenous tissue containing larve BV, lymphatic and nerves

Mucosa

Layer of GI: made of epithelium lamina propria and muscularis mucosae

Inner circulae


Outer longitudinal

Smooth muscle arrangement in muscularis externa/propria layer (except stomach)

Inner circular


Outer longitudinal


Inner oblique

Smooth muscle arrangement in muscularis extrrna/propria of stomach

Peristaltic contraction

Function of Inner circularOuter longitudinal orientation of muscle

Myenteric/ Auerbach plexus

Found between Inner circular and Outer longitudinal muscles

Adventitia/ Serosa

Outer layer of loose areolar and adipose tissue containing major vessels and nerves

Enamel


Dentin


Pulp

Layers of teeth from outermost to innermost

Enamel


Dentin


Pulp

Layers of teeth from hardest to softest

Odontoblast

Dentin is lined by...?

Dentinal tubules

Carry dentinal substances from dentocytes

Gum/Gingiva

Where root of tooth is embedded

Periodontal membrane

This membrane lines cementum

Skeletal muscle

Muscle lining of dorsal surface of tongue

Tastebud

Found at lateral ends of circumvalate papilla

Papillary region

Region w/c is anterior 2/3 of the tongue

Stratified squamous keratinizing to non keratinizing

Lining of tongue

Sulcus terminalis

Divides tongue into anterior and posterior

Lingual area

Area w/c is the posterior 1/3 of tongue and has tonsils

Anterior

Where is circumvalate papilla located in relation to sulcus terminalis ?

Circumvalate papilla

Largest papilla and is between papillary and tonsilar region of tongue

Fungiform papilla

Numerous at tip and sides of tongue and is mushroom shaped. It has tastebuds

Filiform papia

Scattered everywhere, conical in shape and is the most numerous papilla of tongue

Follate/ Follicular/ Folic papilla

Not fully developed papilla in human

Serosa

At areas w/in peritoneal cavity, Adventitia is called...?

Tongue


Oral cavity


Pharynx


Upper 1/3 of esophagus

Propulsion of food is voluntary from where to where (say 4 things) ?

Interstitial cells of Cajal

Pacemaker cells that initiates contraction of smooth muscle

Gastro-esophageal reflux

Prevents reflux of food that goes into stomach

M- strat. Squam epith



L-scattered lymphoid aggregates



S-seromucous glands (abundant in upper and lower third



Mp- upper third: thick skelly musc


Middle third:skelly and smooth


Lower third: smooth musc



A-fibrous, lacks serous covering

Esophagus



Mucosa-


Lamina Propria-


Submucosa-


Muscularis propria-


Adventita-

Chyme

Mechanical and chemical breakdown of food forms...?

Pylori sphincter

Sphincter bet. stomach and small intestine

Rugae

Folds of gastric mucosa

Gastric pits/ foveolae

Gastric glands open into the gastric lumen via...?

Cardia

Mucous secreting glands surrounding Junction of esophagus

Compound tubular

Morphology of cardia glands

Branched tubular glands


Secretes gastric juice

Glands of stomach fundus and its function

Surface mucous cells


Neck cells


Parietal/oxyntic cells


Chief/ zymogenic/ peptic cells


Neuroendocrine cell


Stem cell

Cells of gastric glands (6)

Surface mucous cells

Gastric gland cell that covers luminal seuface of stomach and Secretes bicarbonate

Neck mucous cells

Gastric gland cell that is squeezes bet. parietal cells of neck and protects from gastric acid autodigestion

Parietal/ oxyntic cells

Gastric gland cell that is most numerous in the isthmus and Secretes HCl and intrinsic factor

Terminal ileum

Absorption of B12 occurs where?

Parietal/ oxyntic cells

Gastric gland cell that has a fried egg appearance and an intensely acidophilic cytoplasm

Chief/ zymogenic/ peptic cells

Gastric gland cell that has a strongly basophilic granular cytoplasm with zymogen granules and basally located nuclei

Neuroendocrine cells

Gastric gland cell that secretes hormones including serotonin

Stem cells

Gastric gland cell that are undifferentiated. At neck of glands and replaces all other cell types

Branched and coiled tubular

Glands of pylorus

G-cells

Neuroendocrine ells that secrete gastrin


Intestinal capillaries and liver; portal vein


Intersinal lymphatics; lacteals

AA and monosaccharides enter the___ and ___, thru ___



Reconstituted triglycerides enter the ___ thru ___, bypassing the liver

Duodenum

Main function is to neutralize gastric acid and pepsin

Short tubular glands

Glands of duodenal mucosa

Villi
Short tubular glands
crypts of Lieberkuhn

Contents of duodenal mucosa

Longest; Shortest

Length of villi in:
____ in the duodenum and becomes _____ towards the ileum

Branched tubular glands (duodenal Brunner's glands)

Glands of the duodenal submucosa

MUST KNOW

MUST KNOW: Chyme stimulates brunner's glands to secrete thin alkaline mucus that neutralizes acidic chyme and protects mucosa from autodigestion

Inner circular and outer longitudinal layer

Muscle orientation of small intestine

Plicae circulares/ Folds of Kerckring

Transverse folds of the mucosa of the ileum

Jejunum and proximal ileum

proximal duodenum and distal ileum

Plicae circulares/ Folds of Kerckring is present in ___ and ___,

Absent in ___ and ___

MUST KNOW

MUST KNOW: Lymphoid tissue becomes more prominent in the ileum because of the Peyer's Patches

Enterocytes

Most common cell type in the intestinal epithelium (simple columnar) seen at the brush border and are the main absorptive cells

Goblet cells

Cells that produce mucin for lubrication and protection, scattered among the enterocytes

Paneth cells

Cells found at base of crypts, has eosinophilic apical granules and has apical defensive function

Neuroendocrine cells

Cells that regulate GIT motility and secretion (intestine)

Intraepithelial lymphocytes

Mostly T-cell, responsible for defense of invasive organisms in the intestine

Absorption of water and salt from feces and propulsion into rectum and anus

Principal function of large intestine

Taenia coli

Three separate bands of longitudinal muscle layer in the rectum

MUST KNOW

MUST KNOW: Intestinal villi are no longer present in the large intestine but still numerous in goblet cells

MUST KNOW

MUST KNOW: Colon's lymphoid aggregates are smaller than Peyer's patches and found between lamina propria and submucosa

Columns of Morgagni

Longitudinal folds of mucosa immediately above the anal valves

MUST KNOW

MUST KNOW: large intestine is inhabited by commensal bacteria for food degradation

Appendix a.k.a Abdominal tonsil

Small blind-ended tube distal to the ileocaecal junction

MUST KNOW

MUST KNOW: mucosa of appendix is same as large intestine


> presence of straight tubular glands or crypts line by goblet cells

Mesentery or mesoappendix

Layer of appendix that contains blood vessels, lymphatics and nerves

Acute appendicitis

Most common appendix disorder


> severe abdominal pain at right lower quadrant accompanied by fever and GI symptoms

Rectum

Terminal portion of large intestine; holding chamber of feces prior to defacation

4 cm

Measurement of anal canal (in cm)

MUST KNOW

MUST KNOW: mucosa of rectum is the same as the rest of the bowel except that it has more numerous goblet cells

Branched tubular circumanal glands

Glands at rectoanal junction

Skeletal muscle (voluntary muscle)

Muscle lining of anal sphincter

MUST KNOW

MUST KNOW:


At the anus:
stratified squamous goes gradual transition to skin which contains sebaceous glands and large apocrine sweat glands

Perianal glands of GAY

Apocrine glands at perianal region

Smooth muscle

Lining of internal anal sphincter

Skeletal muscle

Lining of external anal sphincter