Cat Anatomy

Dissected Organs

By: Tevin R. Baechtold

- Folded in half when inside cat

- Quite stretchable - Quite fragile

- Yellow and red colored, also partially fatty

- Covers and protects small intestine

Small Intestine – Digests and absorbs food

- 154cm long

- All bunched up, and held together with membrane - Reddish and brown colored

- Lined with Villi and tissue

- Very stretchable and flexible

Large Intestine – where water/liquids absorption occurs

- Connected to the small intestine

- Wide and has great volume

- Folded - Brownish, greenish with some yellow colored

- Holds waste before it leaves the body

Stomach

- Wrinkled and somewhat folded when empty

- Filled with rugae inside

- Dark red/brown/yellow colored

- Contains what look like dirt particles

- Connected to small intestine and esophagus

Spleen

- Has a somewhat heavy mass

- Positioned on the lower left abdomen (next to left kidney)

- Dark red and brownish colored

- Soft

- Lightly attached and easily removed

Liver & Gall Bladder

- Connected to stomach

- has many folds

- is of great mass for size

- Brown and partially purple

- Gall Bladder located in a fold

- Dark and purple/reddish color

- Filled with bile

Heart

- Connected to and surrounded by lungs

- Darkly red and yellow colored

- Sealed by pericardium

- Atriums are compact and seems squished inside

- located in the middle of the upper torso