Rumen
The epithelium of the rumen
What is keratinized stratified squamous?
What is honeycomb or hexagonal mucosa?
The main function of the omasum
What is water absorption?
Bonus! mechanical grinding too
The abomasum is often called the ___________
What is "true stomach?"
Slide 1
What is the abomasum (pyloric part)?
Ruminal papillae presence/absence and purpose
What is present and increase surface area?
What is
-fermentation (along with rumen)
-mixing ingesta
-regurgitation for rumination
-trapping foreign particles
What is keratinized stratified squamous?
The epithelium of the abomasum
Slide 2
What is the reticulum?
Glands and secretions of the rumen
What are no glands and no secretion?
The tunica muscularis of the reticulum is __________ than the rumen
The name for the spaces between omasal folds/laminae
What is interlaminar spaces?
The secretion produced by parietal cells
What is HCl?
Slide 3
What is the abomasum?
Pathway of fluid absorbed from rumen
What is through intercellular spaces?
Location of lamina muscularis
Where is within the primary crests?
What is the lesser omentum?
The structure allowing milk to go directly into the abomasum in young animals
What is the gastric groove?
Slide 4
What are the absence of lamina muscularis mucosae, circular, and longitudinal layers?
Things contained in the mucosa of the reticulum
What are
-primary and secondary crests
-papillae
-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium
The two histologic layers which extend into the omasal laminae
What are lamina muscularis and the circular muscle fibers of tunica muscularis?
The three area/types of glands present in the abomasum
What are cardiac, fundic, and pyloric?
Slide 5
Omasum