While this image might look like a multicolored tile floor, it is actually a cross section through the fingerlike bumps on the intestinal wall called villi. The cells within the villi, which you can ...

This image shows vertical slices, from top to bottom, through several villi from the small intestine of a mouse. The outer membranes of the intestinal villi are represented by solid-colored lines (1).

The result is formation of multiple villi and microvilli. Intestinal villi, with their branching projections and folds, increase the surface area for absorption tremendously. With a combination of ...

The villi reach out from the inner walls of the small intestine—the 20+ foot tube that connects the stomach and large ...

The esophagus empties into the stomach, a large ... fingerlike projections called villi, and transported to the liver. What's left in the digestive tract passes into the large intestine, where ...

Stomach This is a muscular bag which mixes food ... In the small intestine there are also specialised structures called villi which have a tiny hair-like structure poking into the small intestine ...

Stomach This is a muscular bag which mixes food ... In the small intestine there are also specialised structures called villi which have a tiny hair-like structure poking into the small intestine ...