Mastication is mechanical process of chewing with lubrication and digestion process by saliva.
Mechanical digestion is considered a physical process and includes actions such as mastication (chewing) and peristalsis (squeezing) of the intestine.
The mechanical breakdown of food starts with the saliva in your mouth.
It's mechanical. Peristalsis includes muscles moving material through the digestive system.Yes
Chewing begins mechanical breakdown of food through mastication
Mostly in the mouth (mastication) and the stomach.
Mechanical, or more specific mastication.
mechanical breakdown of food and mixing food with saliva, also called mastication.
Mastication, commonly known as chewing, is the term for the mechanical breakdown of food in the mouth.
(("Mastication" means; to chew and/or grind and knead.)) Yes, but seeing as the how the question asked what mastiFIcation means and not in fact mastication, I will answer this correctly. Mastification is the mechanical breakdown of food, then mixing the food with saliva. Thoroughly uncommon term.
Mechanical digestion in the mouth is the process of chewing the food by the teeth with the help of saliva. The whole process taking place inside the mouth. The process is called "mastication."
The answer is mechanical digestion. In mouth, it's mastication, or chewing.
The mechanical shredding and crushing of food (together with the mixing in of salivary amylase to start digestion) is mastication.