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What is a foregut?

What is a foregut? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum
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As long as food is present in the foregut, the threshold is raised by signals from distension receptors in that area.
These grow inward and eventually fuse to form the endoderm of the midgut, while ectoderm is dragged inward behind them at each end to form the foregut and the hindgut.
Hence when the stomach develops from the foregut, as a specialized segment of the same, it is supplied by vagus branches.
That price is the very absence of the selenodont specializations, the most obvious of which is foregut fermentation.
The foregut as defined here should be composed of ingesta and fish-derived material including digestive enzymes.
During its life cycle, Y. pestis colonizes the flea midgut and can form a biofilm in the proventricular valve in the foregut.

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