APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -It makes up part of the long pathway that food takes through your body, called the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. When food leaves your stomach, it enters the small intestine, also called the small bowel. The small bowel connects to the large bowel, also called the large intestine or colon.

Detailed explanation-2: -The cecum is part of the large intestine, not the small intestine.

Detailed explanation-3: -The small intestine is divided into the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The small intestine follows the general structure of the digestive tract in that the wall has a mucosa with simple columnar epithelium, submucosa, smooth muscle with inner circular and outer longitudinal layers, and serosa.

Detailed explanation-4: -Main parts of the large intestine are cecum, colon, rectum and anus. The small intestine consists of three parts. The first part, called the duodenum, connects to the stomach. The middle part is the jejunum.