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Rabbit Digestive System Overview

The rabbit's digestive system consists of the alimentary canal and digestive glands, including the mouth, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, caecum, large intestine, and anus. Key features include the presence of specialized teeth, a complex stomach structure, and various digestive glands such as salivary glands, liver, and pancreas. The system is designed for efficient food processing, lubrication, and digestion.

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Rabbit Digestive System Overview

The rabbit's digestive system consists of the alimentary canal and digestive glands, including the mouth, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, caecum, large intestine, and anus. Key features include the presence of specialized teeth, a complex stomach structure, and various digestive glands such as salivary glands, liver, and pancreas. The system is designed for efficient food processing, lubrication, and digestion.

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Rabbit: Digestive system

- Consist of alimentary canal and digestive glands


A. Alimentary canal
1. Mouth
- Bounded by soft, fleshy and movable lips
- Inner surface with opening of labial glands to keep lips moist
- Upper lip divided by median vertical cleft which keep upper incisor exposed (hare cleft)
2. Vestibule
- Space between mouth and teeth
3. Buccal cavity/ oral cavity
(i) Palate
- Palate forms roof of oral cavity, with transverse ridge called palatal rugae to
prevent slipping of food (grass)
- Posterior part soft and ends as small flap or uvula
(ii) Tongue
- Large, mobile and muscular
- Helps in mixing of food and saliva
(iii) Teeth
- Teeth thecodont and diphyodont
- Teeth of upper jaw on premaxillae and maxilla and teeth of lower jaw on dentary
- Incisors long chisel like for cutting food, canines absent
- Premolar and molar grinders
- Dental formula I 2/1, C 0/0, pm 3/2, m 3/3 = 28
- Space between incisor and premolar called diastema
4. Pharynx
- Divided into three parts
- Nasopharynx receive opening of Eustachian canal and nasal passage
- Oropharynx receive opening of buccal cavity
- Laryngopharynx opens into oesophagus by gullet and larynx by glottis
5. Oesophagus
- Long, narrow and elastic tube to connect
pharynx and stomach
6. Stomach
- Broadest part of alimentary canal
- Divided into cardiac, fundic and pyloric
part
- Helps in storage, mechanical churning and
partial digestion of food
7. Small Intestine
(a) Duodenum- Smallest part, U shaped, receive bile and pancreatic duct, contains
intestinal and Brunner's gland
(b) Jejunum and ileum- Two internally distinct part, internal lining raised into villi.
Terminal part of ileum expanded as sacculus rotundus
8. Caecum
- At the junction of ileum and colon as blind pouch
- End terminates into vermiform appendix
9. Large intestine
- Divided into colon and rectum
- Rectum gives beaded appearance due to faecal pellets
10. Anus
- Terminal part and guarded by anal sphincter
B. Digestive glands
1. Salivary gland
- Four pairs of salivary gland
- Parotid at the base of pinna, infra orbital below orbit,
sub mandibular near angle of mandible and sublingual
below tongue
- Helps in lubrication of food and partial digestion
2. Liver
- Largest gland with five lobes
- Three lobes on left side i.e. Spigelian, left central and left
lateral
- Two lobes on right side i.e. caudate and right central/cystic
- Hepatic duct from each lobe and cystic duct from gall
bladder unite to form bile duct which opens into duodenum
3. Pancreas
- Irregularly branched pinkish gland in duodenal loop
- Secrete pancreatic juice

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