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The small intestines and the first 2/3 of the large intestine are supplied with blood by what artery?. The Superior Mesenteric Artery. The Superior Mesenteric artery branches into what arteries?. The mesenteric arteries. Name the first branch off the aorta below the diaphragm.
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The small intestines and the first 2/3 of the large intestine are supplied with blood by what artery?
The gastric supplies blood to the stomach, the splenic supplies blood to the spleen, and the hepatic supplies blood to the liver.
Are there celiac, inferior, and superior mesenteric veins that empty directly into the vena cava?
No. The celiac, inferior, and superior mesenteric veins empty into the Hepatic Portal System.
The large yellow vein that the mesenteric veins empty into is called?
What are the special macrophages in the liver that phagocytize debris and bacteria and also cleanse the blood?
What artery takes blood the the last 1/3 of the Large intestine?
Products of digestion that are filtered through the Hepatic Portal System are said to be?
In the small intestine, name the finger-like projections that increase the surface area for absorption of nutrients.
Each villus contains a capillary bed and what other structure?
Lacteals absorb excess interstitial fluid and are responsible for picking up and transporting the products of fat digestion.
What structure do the products of fat digestion originally become?
Chylomicrons--packages of fatty things surrounded by a transport protein
Chylomicrons are made by the brush border cells and exported to what dead-end vessels?
Lacteals. What larger and larger vessels do lacteals empty into?
The lymphatic fluid in these vessels passes through what structures?
What is the name of the large sinus that the lymphatic vessels eventually empty into?
The ciserna chylii is the beginning of what main duct in the lymphatic system?