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Food waste does travel through the rectum.
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What rectum store?
the rectum stores undigested food before it is passed out through the anus.
If you put food in your rectum can you defecate through your mouth?
uh....no
Through which structures do wastes pass into the rectum?
Food passes through your entire digestive tract before it reaches your rectum. That means that food goes into your esophagus, then your stomach, then your small intestine, and then your large intestine before it reaches your rectum.
What happens to the food when it passes through the rectum?
It will come out of the anus as feces.
Where does undigested food leave the body?
no.the large does,and not for long.it has to be excreted.
What is the biological meaning of egestion?
It's the expelling of undigested food through the rectum, during defecation.
Does food NOT travel through the pancreas?
no it does not
Trace the path of food through the stomach?
the food goes through the Mouth to the pharynx to the esophagus in the stomach through the small intestine and the undigested waste goes through the large intestine and comes out the rectum as feces
Were does the food go after the small intestien?
Food moves from the large intestine to the small intestine. Food waste is then stored in the rectum until expelled through the anus.
What is the next step after digestion of food in the small intestine?
After food is digested in the small intestine, it passes through to the rectum then anus, where the undigested food comes out as waste.
How does your rectum break down food?
The rectum doesn't do anything to break down food. By the time "food" reaches the large intestine, what was at one time "food" is then liquefied waste. In the small intestines, fluid is added. So in the large intestines, the fluid is pulled back out of the waste and then pushed toward the kidneys to process it. As the fluid is pulled back, the liquefied wastes become semi-solid (to very dry solid if constipated). After going through the last part of the large intestines, the solid waste (stool, feces) is pushed into the top of the rectum. The rectum acts as a holding receptacle and as a nerve center that sets off a "gotta go" signal through a feeling of fullness, e.g. pressure on the nerves in the walls of the rectum. The rectum is about 10-12cm in length. So it can hold a lot of waste. Also, because the intestines and rectum are basically round tubes, resulting in us having a mostly rounded stool (unless we end up with too much water left in the waste, resulting in diarrhea. As you can see, the rectum has nothing to do with breaking down food.
What are the three areas where food passes through but digestion does not occur?
The three areas are: - the esophagus - the large intestine - the rectum
