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Architecture
10th Grade
03/09/2015

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Beak
Definition
They can use it for feeding
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Tonge
Definition
The fleshy muscular organ in the month used for tasting licking swallowing
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Esophagus
Definition
The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach
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Crop
Definition
Is an expanded muscular pouch near the gullet or the throat
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Proventriculus
Definition
The narrow glandular first region of a bird's stomach between the crop and gizzard.
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Spleen
Definition
organ invilved in the procuction and removal of blood cells in most vertabrates and forming part of the immune system
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Liver
Definition
A large lobed glandular organ in thw adomen of vertebrates involed in many metabolic processes
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Gizzard
Definition
A muscular thick-walled part of a bird's stomach for grinding food
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Duodenum
Definition
The first part of the small intestine immediately beyond the stomach leading to the jejunum.
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Pancreas
Definition
A large gland behind the stomach that secrets digestive enzymes into the duodenum.
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Small Intestine
Definition
The part of the intestine that runs between the stomach and large intestine
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Large Intestine
Definition
Stores undigested waste material and absorbs water from the meterial
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Ceca
Definition
A pouch connected to the junction of the small and large intestine
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Cloaca
Definition
Release both excretory and genital products in vertebrates except most mammals and certain inverbebrates
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Anus
Definition
Next to the colon
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