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Colon (100X)

Microimage
Image copyright: University of Oslo, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. (Tissue stain: H+E).

What's the difference between the lamina mucosae in the small intestine and the lamina mucosae of the large intestine?

  • there are no villi in the lamina mucosae of the colon, only crypts.
  • lamina epitelialis (epithelial lamina / mucosa) in the colon contains plenty of goblet cells. There are no Paneth cells.
Published August 31st 2020, updated October 20th 2021.