BIOM20002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Seminal Vesicle, Peritoneum, Visceral Pain
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May be organised into lobes (or lobules) eg liver. Structures adjacent to solid viscera produce grooves & impressions on it. Some glands are both exocrine (secrete into ducts, ducts emerge from hilum of viscera. Open into hollow viscera) and endocrine (glands that secrete directly into blood stream. Usually secrete hormones that act in other parts of the body. Single membrane that lines a body cavity and contains a space within it. Lines body wall; covers part or all of a viscus (serosa) One that lines heart, 1 that lines each lung. Subdivided into parietal & visceral layers (e. g. pleura in thoracic cavity; peritoneum in abdominal cavity) that are continuous. Parietal layer lines body wall & receives nerve & blood supply from body wall (somatic) Visceral layer covers viscera & receives same nerve & blood supply as viscera. Outlining the blue refgion is a continuous membrane that lines cavity and organs.
