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your rectum can hold 1 pound of poo
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What is the job of the rectum?
To hold solid waste until it needs to be excreted
Rectum or Anus where does waste go after intestines?
Waste goes into the rectum.
What is the last part of the large intestine?
The rectum.the rectum or the decending colon.
How much poop can a person hold?
It depends on the size of your rectum. If you have a big rectum, you could store a lot of feces.
What ae What are facts about rectum?
The rectum is 4-5 inches long, it's a muscle that expels waste. There's not much about it.
Does food travel through the rectum?
Food waste does travel through the rectum.
What eliminates solid waste from the body?
Rectum
What are the eliminates solid waste from the body?
Rectum
Waste is stored before it leaves body?
wastes in a human being's body is stored within the rectum.
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.
Differences between large intestine and rectum?
the rectum is part of the large intestine. it holds waste.
How does a waste molecule take waste out of the body?
The walls of the small intestines soaks up all of the liquid in it and it carries it to the rectum and after it travels through the rectum it exits through the anus. That is how a waste molecule takes waste out of the body.
