The digestive system
By: Michael Windelspecht
Series: Human body systems (Westport, Conn.); Human body systems (Westport, Conn.)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780313062537
Subjects: Digestive organs; Diseases; Nutrition; Digestive System Diseases; Digestive System; Gastrointestinal Diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-182) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.
Table of contents: title: Digestion at the cellular and molecular level; title: The upper gastrointestinal tract: oral cavity, esophagus, and stomach; title: The lower gastrointestinal tract: small intestine and colon; title: The accessory organs; title: History of the digestive system: ancients to the renaissance; title: History of the digestive system: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries; title: History of the digestive system: twentieth century to the present; title: Diseases and ailments of the oral cavity and esophagus; title: Diseases and ailments of the stomach; title: diseases and ailments of the small and large intestine; title: Diseases and ailments of the accessory glands; title: Cancer of the digestive system.