Large Intestine

• Large intestine is also known as what?

  Bowel
• Large intestine ABSORBS WATER and ELECTROCYTES.
• Large intestine forms INDIGESTIBLE MATERIAL into FECES.
• What are the regions of the large intestine?

  cecum, ileocecal valve, appendix, and colon
• The mucosa of the large intestine consist of what type of epithelium?

  Simple columnar
• The mucosa of the large intestine contains INTESTINAL GLANDS, COLUMNAR ABSORPTIVE CELLS (colonocytes), and GOBLET CELLS
• Colonocytes: columnar absorptive cells
• Taenia coli: longitudinal BANDS seen on outer layer of colon
• Large intestine has no what?

  villi or plicae circulares
• Haustra: formed from contractions of Taenia coli
• Which layer is Taenia coli located?

  muscularis externa
• Colon: lining contains SIMPLE COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM + GOBLET CELLS
• APPENDIX: Lining contains SIMPLE COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM + numerous Goblet cells
• Colon: LONG INTESTINAL GLANDS
• APPENDIX: SHORT AND LESS WELL DEVELOPED INTESTINAL GLANDS
• APPENDIX: numerous lymphatic nodules
• What is this?

  Colon

  
• What is this?

  Appendix