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The stomach squeezes to help break down food.

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Where is the mechanical digestion competed?

Mechanical digestion in humans is completed in the stomach.


What does mechanical digestion mean?

Mechanical digestion happens in only in 2 of your digestion organs mouth and stomach. Mechanical digestion is the mechanical way you digest your food for example when your eating your teeth are mechanical digesting your food by making your food smaller by chewing on it your not changing your food in any way that only happens chemical digestion is happening.Another example of mechanical digestion is in your stomach when the food is bong to the stomach your stomach is squeezing mushing up the food to make it smaller (your stomach is made out of 3 lairs of mussel's which squeeze in all 3 different direction's).


Where does chemical and mechanical digestion take place?

what is responsible for chemical digestion in earthworms


Much of mechanical digestion takes place in the?

Stomach


Where do most mechanical digestion takes place?

In the Mouth then the second is the Stomach


In addition to storage and mechanical breakdown of food what else happens in the stomach?

initiates protein digestion and denatures proteins


What are the Organs where mechanical digestion take place?

There is the small intestine, stomach, and the mouth, and that is all that i can think of. Hope this answer helps you people out there looking for three of the organs for mechanical digestion. But if not....... well that sucks for you.


What does the churning action of the stomach wall accomplish?

The churning action of the stomach wall accomplishes mechanical digestion. Mechanical digestion begins in the mouth and along with chemical digestion, ends in the small intestine.


Churning of the stomach is an example of what type of digestion?

mechanical


What organ does mechanical digestion occur in?

Stomach and Mouth


How is machanicle digestion different for cheminal digestion?

mechanical digestion is with your teeth , chemical digestion is in your stomach and small intestine.


Most mechanical digestion takes place where?

In the Mouth then the second is the Stomach