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  2. Development of the digestive system - Wikipedia

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    Initially, the gut tube from the caudal end of the foregut to the end of the hindgut is suspended from the dorsal body wall by dorsal mesentery. Ventral mesentery, derived from the septum transversum, exists only in the region of the terminal part of the esophagus, the stomach, and the upper portion of the duodenum. [2]

  3. Mesentery - Wikipedia

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    Mesentery in red. Dorsal mesentery is the lower part of the circuit. The upper part is ventral mesentery. Abdominal part of digestive tube and its attachment to the primitive or common mesentery. Human embryo of six weeks. Schematic figure of the bursa omentalis, etc. Human embryo of eight weeks.

  4. Peritoneum - Wikipedia

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    Dorsal mesentery: Mesentery proper: Small intestine (jejunum and ileum) Posterior abdominal wall: Superior mesenteric artery, accompanying veins, autonomic nerve plexuses, lymphatics, 100–200 lymph nodes and connective tissue with fat Transverse mesocolon: Transverse colon: Posterior abdominal wall: Middle colic: Sigmoid mesocolon: Sigmoid ...

  5. Mesothelium - Wikipedia

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    The mesothelium is a membrane composed of simple squamous epithelial cells of mesodermal origin, [2] which forms the lining of several body cavities: the pleura (pleural cavity around the lungs), peritoneum (abdominopelvic cavity including the mesentery, omenta, falciform ligament and the perimetrium) and pericardium (around the heart).

  6. Gastrointestinal tract - Wikipedia

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    The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus.The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and other animals, including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.

  7. Greater omentum - Wikipedia

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    Two of the stages in the development of the digestive tube and its mesentery. The arrow indicates the entrance to the bursa omentalis. The greater omentum develops from the dorsal mesentery that connects the stomach to the posterior abdominal wall. During its development, the stomach undergoes its first 90° rotation along the axis of the ...

  8. Foregut - Wikipedia

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    Its two attachments are commonly referred to as the dorsal mesogastrium and the ventral mesogastrium. As the stomach rotates during early development, the dorsal and ventral mesentery rotate with it; this rotation produces a space anterior to the expanding stomach called the greater sac, and a space posterior to the stomach called the lesser sac.

  9. Mesentery (zoology) - Wikipedia

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    In zoology, a mesentery is a membrane inside the body cavity of an animal. The term identifies different structures in different phyla : in vertebrates it is a double fold of the peritoneum enclosing the intestines; in other organisms it forms complete or incomplete partitions of the body cavity, whether that is the coelom or, as in the ...