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Perrine Marika Kho posted an update in the group
MT 30 LAB – H 3 years, 11 months ago The digestive system is made up of the digestive tract and other organs that help the body break down and absorb food. It is a long, twisting tube that starts at the mouth and goes through the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus.The 4 layers of the large intestine from the lumen outward are the mucosa, submucosa, muscular layer, and serosa. The muscular layer is made up of 2 layers of smooth muscle, the inner, circular layer, and the outer, longitudinal layer. These layers contribute to the motility of the large intestine.
The appendix is made of an inner mucosa layer just like the rest of the digestive tract and is also known as the vermix or the cecal appendix.
The ileum is entirely covered by serosa from the outside. It is made up of simple squamous epithelium and a connective tissue layer underneath (lamina propria serosae). A characteristic feature of the ileum is the Peyer’s patches lying in the lamina propria of mucosa and in the submucosa.
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Cheriyedath, S. (2019 June 28). What is Appendix. News Medical & Life Science. https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-the-Appendix.aspx
Karunaharamoorthy, A. (2022 March 1). Ileum. Kenhub. Retrieved from https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/the-ileum