BIO L FINAL pt.2

Identify name and function

Sublingual salivary gland aka duct of rivinus

Secretes saliva into the floor of the mouth and has several ducts

Name and function

Pylorus

Divide the stomach and small intestine duodenum using a muscular ring called the pyloric sphincter to control the flow of partially digested food (chyme). Ensures only small amounts of liquid food into the duodenum at a time while preventing premature passage.

Name and function

Central vein in liver

Serves as a crucial drainage point for each liver lobule, collecting blood from the sinusoids-mixed the blood from the portal vein and hepatic artery-and directing it into the hepatic veins and back to the heart

Name and function

Common hepatic duct

carrying bile produced by the liver cells to the gallbladder for storage and directly to the duodenum for digestion.

Name

Haustra, pouches formed from contraction for large muscle band taeni coli

Name and function

Ureter

Transports urine from kidneys to bladder

Name and function

Glomerulus

Filters waste, excess water and solutes from blood for urination

Name and function

Renal pelvis

Gathers urine from the kidney’s calyces and directs it into the ureter.

Name and function

Macula Densa

Regulating the glomerular filtration rate via tubuloglomerular feedback and controlling blood pressure by regulating renin release.

Name and function

Detrusor muscle

detrusor muscle relaxes to allow the bladder to fill and store urine, and contracts during urination (micturition) to compress the bladder and expel urine into the urethra

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Name, function, and cell type

Proximate convoluted tubule

70% filtrate reabsorbed and sent to the loop of Henley

Simple cuboidal with microvilli

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Name and function

Epididymis

4 main functions:

Monitors and adjust fluid produced by seminiferous tubules

Recycles damage spermatozoa

Stores and protect spermatozoa

Facilitate maturation of sperm

Name and function

Prostrate

Secretes a milky, slightly acidic fluid, which can be used by sperm for ATP production. There is four substances; citric acid, acid phosphate, proteolytic enzymes, and seminal plasmids.

Name and function

Corpus cavernosum penis

Facilitate erections by filling with blood upon sexual stimulation.

Name and function

Ampulla

Widest section of tube serves as primary site for fertilization. Captures the ovulated egg, provides an environment for sperm and oocyte to meet, initiates early stages of zygote transport towards the uterus.

infundibulum

Catches the ovum (egg) released from the ovary during ovulation, using its finger like projections known as fimbriae, and guide it into tube for fertilization.

Name and function

Myometrium, tissue of layer in wall of uterus

Consists of 3 layer smooth muscle that helps expel fetus during birth, thickest portion.