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MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY OF THE ORGANS. 



mucosa, with branches upward to the mucosa aud down to the 

 muscle. 



The nerves are like those of the intestine, forming two large 

 plexuses of sympathetic fibres, one between the muscle coats 

 and one in the submucosa. The latter is derived from branches 

 of the former, and from both plexuses finer branches are sent 

 out to various parts of the wall. Medullated nerve fibres end 

 in the striated muscles in motor end plates. 



D. STOMACH. 



The stomach wall is made up of mucosa, submucosa, mus- 

 cularis, and serosa (Fig. 134). 



FIG. 134. 



'Longitudinal 



section of glands 



Tunica propria 



.Glands cut 

 obliquely 



Muscularin 



Submucosa 



Inner 



sBlood-vessel 



Outer tn nut-It' lay I 



Section through tho stomach wall of man (pyloric region). X 14. 



The gastric mucosa has in the recent state a gray or 

 grayish-red color. The surface is uneven, and possesses certain 

 small depressions, the foveolce yaxtricce, into which the gas- 



