STOMACH AND INTESTINES. 



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STOMACH AND INTESTINES. 



A, A, A, Showing the three coats of the stomach. They are easier shown on the gullet 

 than on the stomach. 



B, The main esophagus, or gullet. 



C, The region of the cardiac orifice of the stomach; cardiac meaning toward the heart. 



D, D, D, The muscular coat of the stomach, showing the distribution of the nerves. 



E, The cellular and mucous coats, shown by the reflection of the peritoneal coat. 



F, The peritoneal coat reflected, or turned over. This would indicate the stomach having 

 four coats. I hold that it has but three proper. 



G, Region of the pyloric orifice, or opening from the stomach into the first intestine, 

 called the duodenum. 



