Chapter 24: Digestive System

Question 1

Accessory digestive organs

Answer 1

Mouth
Teeth
Tongue
Salivary glands
Pharynx
Liver
Gallbladder
Pancreas

Question 2

Layers of the digestive canal

Answer 2

Mucosa
Submucosa
Muscular layer
Serosa/adventitia

Question 3

Mucosa

Answer 3

Epithelium
Lamina propria (blood vessels and lymphatic vessels)
Muscularis mucosa

Question 4

Submucosa

Answer 4

Connective tissue. Contains blood and lymph vessels.

Question 5

Muscular layer

Answer 5

Skeletal muscle in: mouth, pharynx, superior and middle esophagus.
Smooth muscle in rest of canal.

Question 6

Serosa

Answer 6

Outer layer composed of connective tissue and mesothelioma.

Question 7

Myenteric neural plexus

Answer 7

Plexus of Auerbach. Within muscular layer.

Question 8

Submucosal neural plexus

Answer 8

Plexus of meissner. Found within Submucosa.