The stomach has three layers: the oblique layer, the middle circular layer, and the external longitudinal layer, which breaks down food mechanically. Acids such as hydrochloric acid further digest ...

The total interior surface area of the stomach is about 800cm2. It has an extra muscle layer in addition to those lining the rest of the GI tract - an oblique layer that allows the stomach to distend ...

To get chiseled abs, you have to target your abdominal muscles ... oblique crunches. Your oblique muscles are on the sides of ...

The circular muscle fibers of the esophagus cross each other at the angle of His to continue as the oblique muscle fibers (innermost muscle layer of the stomach) on the ventral and dorsal surface ...

Radiographic evaluation was normal, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the same day showed increased focal intensity in the proximal portion of the lateral abdominal wall middle layer (fig 1).

When this muscle is exercised and layers of fat disappear from ... The three muscles of the lateral abdominal wall — the internal oblique, the external oblique, and the transverse abdominis ...