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Spijsvertering

Digestion

The road food travels, from de mond to de endeldarm, and the organs that help along the way. Hover a picture, or tap it on a phone, to hear the name.

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Image credits

Photographs and drawings come from Wikimedia Commons and are reproduced under the licences below. All have been resized and converted to WebP for this site; they are otherwise unaltered.

de mond — Illu mouth.jpg by Wikimedia Commons contributor, Public domain
de lip — Lips_2023.jpg by PumpkinMan1943, CC BY-SA 4.0
de tand — Tooth Section.svg by User:Indolences, CC BY-SA 3.0
de snijtand — 06-10-06smile.jpg by dozenist, CC BY-SA 3.0
de hoektand — Eckzahn in Fehlstellung wegen Platzmangel.jpg by Thirunavukkarasye-Raveendran, Public domain
de kies — Lower_wisdom_tooth.jpg by Gleam~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 3.0
de verstandskies — Weisheitszähne-1.jpg by M(e)ister Eiskalt; derivative work: Hic et nunc, CC BY-SA 3.0
het tandvlees — Gingiva.jpg by Dental_fluorosis.jpg: josconklin derivative work: Bobek, CC BY-SA 3.0
het gehemelte — Palate 2 (PSF).png by Pearson Scott Foresman, Public domain
de huig — Uvula_of_an_adult.jpg by JonaLane, CC0
de speekselklier — Blausen_0780_SalivaryGlands.png by BruceBlaus, CC BY 3.0
de slokdarm — Tractus_intestinalis_esophagus.svg by Olek Remesz (wiki-pl: Orem, commons: Orem), CC BY-SA 2.5
de maag — Gray1046.svg by Henry Vandyke Carter, Public domain
de lever — Human Liver (NIH BioArt 230).png by Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger, Public domain
de galblaas — Gallbladder_(organ).png by BruceBlaus, CC BY-SA 4.0
de alvleesklier — Blausen_0699_PancreasAnatomy2.png by BruceBlaus, CC BY 3.0
de dunne darm — Tractus_intestinalis_intestinum_tenue.svg by Olek Remesz (wiki-pl: Orem, commons: Orem), CC BY-SA 2.5
de twaalfvingerige darm — Tractus_intestinalis_duodenum.svg by Olek Remesz (wiki-pl: Orem, commons: Orem), CC BY-SA 2.5
de darmvlok — Intestinal villus simplified.svg by Snow93, Public domain
de dikke darm — Tractus_intestinalis_intestinum_crassum.svg by Olek Remesz (wiki-pl: Orem, commons: Orem), CC BY-SA 2.5
de blindedarm — Tractus_intestinalis_cecum.svg by Olek Remesz (wiki-pl: Orem, commons: Orem), CC BY-SA 2.5
het wormvormig aanhangsel — Tractus_intestinalis_appendix_vermiformis.svg by Olek Remesz (wiki-pl: Orem, commons: Orem), CC BY-SA 2.5
de endeldarm — Rectum_anatomy_en.svg by Armin Kübelbeck, CC BY 3.0
het buikvlies — Gray1035.png by Henry Vandyke Carter, Public domain