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How is the food bolus and chyme produced and where is it found within the digestive system?
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Bolus is food that has been broken down in the mouth. It can be found in the mouth after chewing, in the esophagus, and in the stomach before digestion.
Chyme is food that has been broken down in the stomach and small intestine. It can be found in the stomach after digestion, the small intestine, and the large intestine before it becomes feces.
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What system does the small intestine belong?
It is part of the digestive system for the small and large intestines do their part in digesting all the food we eat. The small intestines takes the nutrients out of our food and puts it into our blood stream and the large intestines (colon) takes the moisture out of the digested food (bolus) for excretion.
Where is the chyme produced?
The microscopic particles called chylomicrons are produced by cells in the small intestine. Once they are produced, they are released into the bloodstream.In the epithelial of the small intestine. :)
Define the term chyme?
Chyme is a soupy blend of bolus and digestive juices. The bolus is chewed up food mixed with saliva after it has been swallowed and has traveled down the esophagus into the stomach. After the bolus enters the stomach, the stomach adds digestive juices, a combination of the hormone gastrin, and enzymes such as intrinsic factor, hydrochloric acid, and pepsinogen. Then it becomes chyme. It continues to be chyme until it enters the cecum, when it turns into feces in the colon.
What is the softball of food formed in the mouth after chewing?
That is known as a bolus.
What happens to food by then called bolus during deglutition?
its swallowed
What does bolus do in the digestive system?
The bolus is not an organ or anything in your digestive system. its a term for the ball of food that accumulates in your mouth so it can be moved down the esophagus
Where is bolus found?
A bolus is formed in the mouth and travels through the whole digestive system of a human.
What is the oesophagus used for in the digestive system?
It Is used to carry the bolus of food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the mixture of saliva and food called?
That makes no sense...what about it???ther is noo answer
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.
Digestive enzymes in the mouth?
Saliva, Amylase, Bolus
What are the digestive enzymes in the mouth?
Saliva, Amylase, Bolus
What is the name of the wave like constraction that propel food along the gut?
Peristalsis is the process by which smooth muscle moves a mass of food (called the food bolus) through the digestive system. There is circular smooth muscle and longitudinal smooth muscle in the digestive tract. Contraction of circluar smooth muscle keeps the food bolus from moving "backward" along the digestive tract by decreasing the diameter of the tract behind the bolus. Contraction of the longitudinal muscle in the digestive tract propels the food bolus "forward" in the digestive tract.
What system does the small intestine belong?
It is part of the digestive system for the small and large intestines do their part in digesting all the food we eat. The small intestines takes the nutrients out of our food and puts it into our blood stream and the large intestines (colon) takes the moisture out of the digested food (bolus) for excretion.
What is the muscle action that mixes chyme with digestive juices while another muscular action that moves food through the digestive system?
The muscle action that mixes chyme with digestive juices throughout the digestive system is called Peristalsis. Peristalsis are wave-like of contractions and expansions of muscles. The muscles help to move the bolus (food) through the digestive tract. Peristalsis are located all over the digestive tract.
What makes is possible for food to be transported through the digestive system?
The term is peristalsis. This refers to smooth muscle tissue contracting rhythmically to move food (bolus) through the intestines.
Where is the chyme produced?
The microscopic particles called chylomicrons are produced by cells in the small intestine. Once they are produced, they are released into the bloodstream.In the epithelial of the small intestine. :)
