Gastrointestinal Diseases: Symptoms, Treatment Causes What are gastrointestinal diseases? Gastrointestinal diseases are health conditions that affect your gastrointestinal (GI) tract Your GI tract is the path food takes through your digestive system — from your mouth to your rectum It also includes your liver, pancreas and gallbladder
Gastrointestinal tract - Wikipedia Gastrointestinal is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines Most animals have a "through-gut" or complete digestive tract
Your Digestive System How it Works - NIDDK The digestive system is made up of the gastrointestinal tract—also called the GI tract or digestive tract—and the liver, pancreas, and gallbladder The GI tract is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus
The Gastrointestinal Tract: Understanding Its Vital Organs The gastrointestinal (GI) tract encompasses the complex system of organs responsible for the digestion and absorption of essential nutrients From the moment food enters our mouth to its final processing and waste elimination stages, a series of intricately coordinated events occur within our GI tract
The Gastrointestinal Tract - TeachMeAnatomy The hollow organs that make up the gastrointestinal tract include the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, cecum, colon (large intestine), rectum and anal canal
14. 3 Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal System 14 3 Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal System Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal System [1] Layers of the Gastrointestinal (GI) Tract The entire length of the gastrointestinal tract is composed of the same four tissue layers Starting from the deep inside the lumen (the hollow, tubular portion of the GI tract) and moving out to the superficial layer, these layers are the mucosa, submucosa