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stomach: labelled anatomical figure. Original source colours and labels retained.
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Gastric pit

Mucosal invagination leading to gastric glands.

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stomach: labelled anatomical figure. Original source colours and labels retained.

Image: OpenStax / University of Hawaiʻi adapted teaching figures; original contributors credited at source · Source / original · CC BY 4.0 — figure credits at source

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Stomach: gastric mucosa

Digestive organs

Stomach: gastric mucosa

STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

Understand what you see.

Produces protective mucus, acid, intrinsic factor and digestive precursors according to region.

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01 / IDENTIFICATION

How to recognise it.

  1. Gastric pits open into glands
  2. Simple columnar surface mucous cells
  3. No villi
02 / KEY STRUCTURES

Point them out.

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03 / VIVA PRACTICE

Think first. Then reveal.

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01How do you identify stomach: gastric mucosa?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Gastric pits open into glands. Simple columnar surface mucous cells. No villi.

02What do parietal cells secrete?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Hydrochloric acid and intrinsic factor.

03What do chief cells secrete?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Pepsinogen and gastric lipase; cell distribution differs by gastric region.

04Which structures should you point out on this reference?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Gastric pits; Parietal cells; Chief cells. Produces protective mucus, acid, intrinsic factor and digestive precursors according to region.

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