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Diagram of the human stomach showing its external regions and internal layers, with a detailed cross-section highlighting the mucosa, submucosa, muscularis, and serosa, plus insets labeling stomach regions and microscopic histology.

Epithelial mucous surface cells (A) extend into the gastric pits (B) of the mucosal lining in the lumen of the stomach (C, gastric glands; D, muscularis mucosa of the stomach).

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