2 Main Groups of Organs

• Accessory Digestive Organs:

  -Teeth, Tongue, Several large Digestive organs
• Alimentary Canal: Gastrointestinal or GI tract
• Alimentary Canal: Continuous coiled, hollowed tube
• Alimentary Canal: Organs ingest, digest, absorb, defecate
• Alimentary Canal Organs:

  -Mouth, Pharynx, Esophagus, Stomach, Small intestine, Large intestine, Anus
• alimentary canal


  digestive tube that extends from the mouth to the anus

  4 layers of tissue (mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa and serosa)
• gastrointestinal tract (GI Tract)


  another name for alimentary canal or digestive tract