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Small Intestines |
Large intestines |
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| Mobility |
- Moves freely on its stalk, the mesentery;
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- Fixed except for transverse and sigmoid colons which have mesentry.
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| Contour |
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- Pinched up by a series of constrictions into haustrations or sacculations.
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| External muscle coat |
- Uniform outer coat of longitudinal muscle
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- Three broad thickened longitudinal bands of smooth muscle called taeniae coli.
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| Appendices epiploicae |
- Fat is limited to the mesenteric border
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- Each is a small rounded evagination of the serous coat, containing a little extraperitoneal fat.
- Appendices epiploicae are absent from the caecum, appendix and rectum.
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