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- ileum
- second region of the small intestine
- cloaca
- common opening for digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts
- gullet
- opening that leads to esophagus
- ventricle
- pumps blood out to the body
- liver
- 3 large lobes. produces bile that aids in digestion
- pancreas
- secretes digestive juices that enter the intestine. located near anterior end of small intestine
- spleen
- small dark bean shaped organ just lateral to the small intestine. part of the circulatory system. cleans blood
- oviducts
- found in the female. a cluster of very thin tube. transfer eggs to the cloaca
- maxilla
- upper jaw
- pericarddial sac
- clear/whitish membrane that surrounds the heart
- mesentery
- clear membrane that helps hold organs in place
- nicitating membrane
- acts like a windshield wiper to the frogs eyes
- fat bodies
- very obvious yellow stringy structures. stores nutriens
- stomach
- just posterior to the mouth and esophagus or anterior to the small intestine. stores bile
- ovaries
- again found in female have black and white "salt & pepper look" . where eggs are formed
- gall bladder
- small sac usually greenish attached below liver. stores bile
- duodenum
- first part of the small intestine
- testes
- male sex organs. produce sperm
- eustachian tubes
- openings that leading to the tympanum
- kidneys
- two long, dark, oval organs located dorsal to the other organs near the large intestine
- heart
- 3 chambered
- manible
- lower jaw
- atrium
- 2 of these chambers in the heart. collect blood to go to the body
- lungs
- located anterior and dorsal to the liver, two spongy gray sac-like sturctures
- pylorus
- valve at the posterior end of stomach. holds food in stomach
- large intestine
- short in length but wider than small intestine. where absorbtion of water takes place and where solid waste collects
- chromatophores
- dark pigmented areas of the frog
- Hunter Hill
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- urinary bladder
- clear sac near posterior end of body cavity, collects urine
- tympanum
- the ear drum of a frog. looks like just a circle on the side of the head
- rugae
- longitudinal rigies on the inside of the stomach, help machanically grind up food
- tongue
- attached at front
- vomerine teeth
- (2) used to prevent prey from escaping
- glottis
- slit like opening leading to the lungs