CLST 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gastrointestinal Tract, Bacteriophage, Ileum
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Module 9: the mouth and the digestive system. Not a very nice god, has nasty myths associated with him. Cronos took his father"s genitals and threw them into the ocean. The ocean foamed up and the goddess venus rises from it. The sky , the curve of the sky lying on mother earth, like an arch or curve above you. Early anatomist transferred this into the arch of the mouth. [latin] tongue; language gloss- lingu- stom-, stomat- or- or- only refers to mouth on the face stom- and stomat- can also refer to mouth of other biological structures stoma [ pl. stomata ] stomach- = mouth (in both grk/lat) root of stomach comes from the root stom- (food enters through the mouth into the stomach) another form of mouth phag-, -phagia, -phagy. The act of eating (or biting, swallowing, chewing, devouring) . For cells, bacteria, viruses , not used for humans or animals.