Cat Functions

• - Metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates
• - Storage of glycogen, vitamins, and minerals
• - Bile production and excretion

Attach small intestines to abdominal wall

Form chyme by mixing food with gastric juices

Store bile

Absorb remaining fluids and salts. Connects small and large intestine.

Absorbs water, electrolytes, and form stool

Store feces that will be emptied into the rectum

Carries bile from the gallbladder to the duodenum

Create digestive enzymes. Produces insulin and glucagon to regulate blood sugar.

Allow stomach contents to pass from the stomach to the small intestine

Mixes bile and pancreatic enzymes

Carry food and liquid from the mouth to the stomach

Further digest food and absorb nutrients

Digest food and absorb nutrients

Carry air to and from the lungs

Contracts and relaxes to bring air in and out of the lungs

Helps keep particles from entering the trachea and houses the vocal cords

Delivers oxygen to the bloodstream

Carry air in and out of lungs

Removes toxic wastes from the blood to form urine

Moves urine from the renal pelvis to the urinary bladder

Tube that moves urine from the bladder out of the body

Store urine

Carry sperm from the testes

Receive blood from the pulmonary veins for circulation and pumps blood left ventricle

Push blood from the left atrium into the aorta

Receive blood from the inferior and superior vena cava for circulation

Takes blood from the right atrium and towards pulmonary trunk and lungs

Transports blood from right ventricle to lungs

Separates the atria and ventricles

Transports blood to the chest

Transports blood to the shoulders

Supplies oxygenated blood to the stomach, pelvis and lungs

Collects all blood from the lower body and dumps into the right atrium

Collects blood from the brachiocephalic and dumps into the right atrium

Part of aorta that carries oxygenated blood through the chest

Carries blood to the head

Supply blood to the heart muscle

Carries blood down from the head

Carry blood to the legs; is where the aorta splits into two

Returns blood from GI organs to the inferior vena cava. Regulates glucose, amino acid, and lipid levels

Transport blood to the kidneys

Holds and filters blood as part of the immune system