MGTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Portal Vein, Progressive Disease, Hyperglycemia
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When digestion begins in the stomach, food becomes referred to as chyme. Food (chyme) will leave the stomach and enter the small intestine via the pyloric valve. Small intestine is divided into 3 segments: duodenum. Most important region of the small intestine. Site of the small intestine where it receives the secretions of the. Move directly from liver to intestine or stored in the gall bladder to be secreted into intestine: occurs on a situational basis. Empties into the large intestine or the colon. Small intestine is the site of continual digestion. Also the predominant site of absorption of breakdown products of digestion from lumen across intestinal cells and into blood: there are a number of anatomical features that facilitate this. Increases surface area: further protrusions called microvilli. Role of the lymph is to drain extracellular fluid of any fluid that has leaked into it back into the blood vessels.
