Pig Cecum
This is a freeze dried specimen. The cecal wall has an oval window cut into it. Looking through the right edge of the window, notice the large ileal papilla, where the ileum empties into the cecum. The cecum is the first part of the large intestine. Like humans and horses, the pig has smooth muscle longitudinal bands in its large intestines. The muscular bands produce sacculations in the wall of the cecum. In contrast to the cecum, the narrow ileum (seen below the cecum) lacks bands and sacculations. The ileum makes a 90 degree bend on the left.
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