The human body A beginner's text-book of anatomy, physiology and hygiene .. . the digestive process has gone on until somefood is ready to enter the intestine, the muscle aroundthe pylorus relaxes a little from time to time; thussome liquified food is passed through the all the things which can be dissolved in thestomach have been passed on, the pyloric orifice openswider and lets solid indigestible things get this way buttons, coins, cherry-stones, and other suchthings which may have been swallowed reach the 7. What are the duties of the muscular coat of the stomach ?W
The human body A beginner's text-book of anatomy, physiology and hygiene .. . the digestive process has gone on until somefood is ready to enter the intestine, the muscle aroundthe pylorus relaxes a little from time to time; thussome liquified food is passed through the all the things which can be dissolved in thestomach have been passed on, the pyloric orifice openswider and lets solid indigestible things get this way buttons, coins, cherry-stones, and other suchthings which may have been swallowed reach the 7. What are the duties of the muscular coat of the stomach ?What surrounds the pyloric orifice ? Its use ? What happens whilethe passage is closed ? What occurs when some food has been pre-pared to enter the intestine ? What occurs when the stomach hasdone all it can towards digesting its contents ? How soon after anordinary meal is the stomach empty ? THE PYLORUS. 115 bowels, to travel through them and, in fortunate cases,be sent out of the body, along with indigestible portionsof the food. In health the stomach is completely emp-. FiG. 32.—The abdominal portions of the alimentary canal. ^, stomach; C, lowerend of gullet ; P, pylorus ; Z>, y, /, portions of the small intestine, named re-spectively duodenum, jejunum, and ileum ; CC^ AC, TC^ DC, S-F, 7?, portions ofthe large intestine, named respectively the caecum, ascending colon, transversecolon, descending colon, sigmoid flexure, and rectum. tied in from two and a half to three and a half hoursafter an ordinary meal. 8. The Small Intestine {D, /, /, Fig. 32), commenc- 8. Commencement, course, and ending of small intestine ? Length Il6 THE LIVER, ing at the pylorus, ends after many windings, by join-ing the large. In an adult it is about twenty feet longand an inch and a half wide. Imbedded in its mucousmembrane, are myriads of tiny glands, much like those ofthe stomach in shape and arrangement, but preparinga digestive liquid very different from the gastric liquid is m
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