Fetal Pig Systems – Class Mammalia
1. Be able to trace these from start to finish from memory
2. read lab manual on vertebrate evolution

I. External Anatomy of the Pig
1. Sus scrofa
2. Segmented into: head, neck, trunk (thorax and abdomen), and tail
3. Lips
4. Nares – the 2 openings of the nose
5. Eyelids – upper and lower
6. Umbilical cord
7. Digitigraded – means they walk on their digits (i.e., toes)
8. Urogenital opening –
a. males – directly posterior to the umbilical cord
b. females – next to anus and covered by the genital papilla
9. Mammary papillae – both sexes have and are developed beore sex determination occurs. Much the same way human males have nipples. They are per-cursors to the mammary glands, which form later on.
10. Oral Cavity – teeth, tongue, hard & soft palate
11. Two holes next to each other for different systems
a. esophagus – opening to digestive tract
b. glottis – opening to the respiratory system
12. Epiglottis – circular flap of skin that covers the glottis

Internal Anatomy
II. Skeletal System of the Pig
1. All vertebrates conform to similar design
2. Axial and appendicular skeletal systems
3. Articulations – where two bones meet also known as a joint
4. Six different types of joints
a. Sutures –these are only joints that are immovable (in skull)
b. Compression Joints
c. Gliding Joints
d. Hinge Joints
e. Pivot Joints
f. Ball-and-socket Joints

III. Muscular System of the Pig
1. Terminology
a. Origin and Insertion – the bones to which the muscle is attatched at each end
b. Type of Articulation – between the muscle and the bone (e.g., tendons)
c. Action of Movement
1. flexion
2. extension
3. adduction – towards the midline
4. abduction –away from the midline
5. rotation

IV. Digestive System of the Pig
1. Mouth is first part of digestive system (DS)
2. Teeth – mechanical breakdown of food
3. Salivary glands – add enzymes to break down the food
a. Amylase – the enzyme being produced
4. Thus digestion actually starts in the mouth
5. Esophagus
6. Smooth muscles ring the esophagus and the digestive system and involuntarily control digestion
7. Stomach – highly ridged with villi (both macro- and micro-)
8. Has glandular cells in this lining –
a. one type produces the product called pepsin
b. another produces – hydrochloric acid
9. Cardiac Sphincter – valve between esophagus and stomach
10. Pyloric Sphincter – valve between stomach and duodenum (i.e., small intestines)
11. Small Intestines – 3 divisions
a. Duodenum – receives ductwork from both liver and pancreas
b. jejunum
c. ilium
12. Liver – makes bile and detoxifies blood
13. Connected from duodenum by the bile duct is the Gall Bladder, located just underneath the left liver lobe. Each liver lobe (there are 4) makes bile and secretes it into the duct where it can be stored in the GB for use during digestion
14. Gall Bladder stores the bile made  in the liver
15. Bile – acts to emulsify fats
16. Pancreas – diffuse glandular structure embedded in the mesenteries that support the stomach and intestines
17. Pancreas produces two end-products
a. enzymes – used in digestion
b. hormones – secreted into the circulatory system (specifically the hepatic portal system)
18. Cecum – blind pouch right at the connection between the small and large intestines.
19. Cecum – primarily a storage organ – holds bacteria that further help breakdown indigestible food. Humans – reduced to vestigial appendix
20. Colon – another name for the large intestines – primarily responsible for absorbing water from the food bolus traveling through the DS
21. Rectum
22. Anal sphincter muscle – controls movement of feces out the anus
23. Mesenteries
 

V. Excretory System of the Pig
1. Homeostasis – the regulating of internal processes (think of a balancing act)
2. One important homeostatic process is the elimination of toxic metabolic by-products
3. Two toxic by-products of metabolism
a. carbon dioxide – eliminated by circulatory system (and eliminated via resp. sys)
b. nitrogen – eliminated by excretory system
4. Regulation of ion concentrations (sodium, potassium, etc) and water concentrations are dually handles by excretory and circulatory system
5. Kidneys – the main units of nitrogenous waste removal
6. These are against the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity and are intimately connected to the circulatory system via the renal art/veins
7. Kidney – also function in excess water, salts, and other substances
8. Hilus – connection between the art/veins and the kidney
9. Ureter – runs posterior from kidneys
10. Bladder – holds the urine and further concentrates it
11. Urethra – urine leave via this duct from the bladder
12. Remember order :
a. kidney –> ureter  -> bladder –> then the urethra
 

VI. Reproductive System of the Pig
1. Note here there is also a difference between the ductwork in a male and female.  Males- share structures with excretory system.  Females don’t share.
Male
1. Scrotal sacs hold the testis
2. Internal testis
a. seminiferous tubules – produce the sperm
b. epididymus -  storage site after sperm produced
c. vas (ductus) deferens – discharge tubule
d. urethra – common ductwork the excretory and reproductive system share
3. Semen – mixture of sperm gametes and fluid suspension
4. Several Glands – make the semen
a. Prostate Gland
b. Semianl Vessicles
c. Cowpers Gland (aka, Bulbourethra)
5. Penis
Female
1. Ovaries – produces gametes
2. Ova (aka, eggs) erupt from ovary and captured by fallopian tube (aka, oviduct)
3. Taken to the uterus
4. Branched horns uterus meets up together
5. Vagina – each horn opens into the vagina
6. Vagina opens directly to outside environment
7. Internal fertilization in mammals
a. sperm is injected into vagina by male penis
b. sperm swims up the oviduct and meet with ovum

VII. Respiratory System of the Pig
1. Main functional units of the respiratory system are the;
a. lungs
b. heart
2. epiglottis
3. glottis
4. larynx
5. tracheae
6. bronchus – primary and secondary
7. bronchioles
8. terminal bronchioles
9. respiratory bronchioles
10. alveoli – highly vascularized and site of gas exchange
 

VIII. Circulatory System of the Pig
1. Heart – main functional organ of the circulatory system
2. Heart covered in a thick membrane called a pericardial sac
3. Heart has 4 chambers
a. 2 atria
b. 2 ventricles
4. allows for double circulation to the lungs and the body with NO mixing between the oxy and deoxy blood
5. Spleen – functions in the storage and release of blood cells made elsewhere
6. Aorta – major artery  in mammalian body
7. Aorta leaves the LV of the heart as the aortic arch then runs posteriorly  and dorsaly following the VC as the dorsal aorta
8. Veins – one-way valves inside prevent back-flow of blood. Lower blood pressure than arteries because the are after the cap beds
9. Pulmonary trunk (aka, pulmonary arch)
10. Divides into left / right pulmonary arteries to the lungs carrying deoxy blood
11. From lungs via pulmonary veins back to the heart

Circulatory Blood Flow through heart
1. Anterior Systemic + Posterior Systemic
2. Anterior Vena Cava + Posterior VC
3. Right atrium
4. Right Ventricle
5. Pulmonary trunk
6. L/R pulmonary Arteries
7. Lungs
8. L/R pulmonary Veins
9. Left Atrium
10. Left Ventricles
11. Aortic Arch
12. Dorsal Aorta
13. Anterior Systemic + Posterior Systemic
14. Major veins of Anterior Vena Cava
1. Subclavian vein – from thoracic and arms
2. Internal Jugular Vein – from tracheae, larynx, neck and brain
3. External Jugular Vein – from head and shoulders
15. Major Veins of the Posterior Vena Cava
1. Hepatic Vein –from 4 lobes of liver and diaphragm
2. Renal Vein – from kidneys, adrenals, gonads
3. Common Iliac Veins – from abdominal wall. Tail, pelvis and legs
16. Hepatic Portal System – embedded in the mesenteries
17. Portal System :
a. artery – cap bed – portal – cap bed – veins

IX. Nervous System
1. read and know basic structures