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What does the stomach do to your food?
The stomach breaks down your food. When you swallow your food, it lands in the stomach. It is broken down by stomach acids and moved into the intestines.
What happens along the canal from food entering till it reaches the stomach?
Peristalsis. Food is actively moved (down) to the stomach.
What is moved through the pyloric sphincter?
Chyme, which is a mixture of partially digested food and stomach acids, is moved through the pyloric sphincter from the stomach to the small intestine for further digestion and absorption of nutrients.
What moves a bolus of food from the mouth to the stomach?
first it goes through a door called the epigladus, then goes through the rset of you esophagus then is dessoulved by your inzime juices.
What happen to the food you have eaten it goes to the stomach?
It is digested by the acids in your stomach and then moved to your small intestine. In the small intestine the broken down food is carried into your bloodstream. The bigger food molecules move to your big intestines where the indigestible food molecules get their water absorbed by the larg intestine. After all that, it comes out as faeces.
What squeezes food down to stomach?
Your esophagus moves it so even when you eat upside down it will still go to your stomach. The series of muscle relaxations (infront of the bolus) and contractions (behind the bolus) that moved food down the esophagus is called peristalsis.
What is a J-shaped muscular sac that stores food and helps to digest food?
The stomach stretchy muscular sac holds food.
Which activity normally occurs in the esophagus of a human body?
The esophagus is responsible for transporting food and liquids from the mouth to the stomach through a series of muscular contractions called peristalsis. This process ensures that food is moved efficiently and safely from the mouth to the stomach for digestion.
What churns and mixes food?
The stomach the stomach the stomach's job is to churn and mixed and digest food until it's a liquid.
What moves food from the mouth by muscular waves?
peristalsis.... the reason why food travels through the esophagus into the stomach is that it is moved along by contractions of smooth muscle surrounding the esophagus. This is known as peristalsis
What does the pharynx have to do with your digestive system?
pharynx is an integral part of our digestive sytem.it allows the bolus of food we ingest to be swallowed and thus moved to the stomach for further processing.
What does the stomach carry?
The esophagus carries boluses of food from the mouth to the stomach.
