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show having a stomach with only a single compartment  
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show the natural opening through which food passes into the body of an animal and which in vertebrates is typically bounded externally by the lips and internally by the pharynx and encloses the tongue, gums, and teeth  
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show a muscular tube that conveys food from the mouth to the stomach and passes from the pharynx down the neck between the trachea and the spinal column and behind the left bronchus where it pierces the diaphragm slightly to the left of the mid  
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show a saclike expansion of the digestive tract of a vertebrate that is located between the esophagus and duodenum and typically consists of a simple often curved sac with an outer serous covering, a strong muscular wall that contracts rhythmically  
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small intestine   show
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show a cavity open at one end (such as the blind end of a duct)  
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show a cavity open at one end (such as the blind end of a duct)  
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rectum   show
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ruminant   show
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show the large first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant in which cellulose is broken down by the action of symbiotic microorganisms  
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show the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells  
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show the third chamber of the ruminant stomach that is situated between the reticulum and the abomasum  
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abomasum   show
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show a small organ that produces saliva in the mouth  
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show a membranous muscular sac in which bile from the liver is stored  
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pancreas   show
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show any of the valves that control blood flow to and from the heart and that include the atrioventricular valves, the aortic valve, and the pulmonary valve  
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show the circular fold of mucous membrane containing a ring of circularly disposed muscle fibers that closes the vertebrate pylorus  
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show a small slender often vascular process  
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show the process of absorbing something or of being absorbed  
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alimentary tract   show
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accessory digestive organ   show
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crop   show
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proventriculus   show
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show the muscular enlargement of the digestive tract of birds that has usually thick muscular walls and a tough horny lining for grinding the food and when the crop is present follows it and the proventriculus  
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cloaca   show
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kidney   show
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duodenum   show
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show the muscular tubular passage of the vertebrate digestive and respiratory tracts extending from the back of the nasal cavity and mouth to the esophagus  
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show a large very vascular glandular organ of vertebrates that secretes bile and causes important changes in many of the substances contained in the blood (as by converting sugars into glycogen which it stores up until required and by forming urea)  
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show a membranous sac of most vertebrates that encloses the yolk, is attached in most forms through the yolk stalk with the intestinal cavity of the embryo, and is supplied with blood vessels that transport nutritive yolk products to the developing embryo  
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show the valve formed by two folds of mucous membrane at the opening of the ileum into the large intestine  
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