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Name the part of the alimentary canal where food enters the alimentary canal?
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∙ 11y ago
mouth (oesophagus)
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What is the name of the long digestive to that runs from the mouth to the rectum?
That would be the alimentary canal. Food enters the mouth, then travels down the esophagus to the stomach. From there it enters the intestines and exits through the anus as feces.
What is the exit point of the alimentary canal?
The alimentary canal, also called digestive tract, is the pathway by which food enters the body and solid wastes are expelled. The alimentary canal includes the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and ends, to answer your question, at the anus.
What is the name For the muscular contractions that move food though the alimentary canal?
PERISTALSIS
What must occur so food can pass though the wall of the alimentary canal?
For food to properly pass through the alimentary canal, digestion must first occur. The process of moving food through the alimentary canal is called propulsion.
What is the path of food in a person?
Alimentary canal.
What is the scientific name for your gut?
The scientific name for the gut is the gastrointestinal tract, also known as the alimentary canal. It includes organs such as the stomach, small intestine, and large intestine, where digestion and absorption of nutrients occur.
Why is the liver not part of the alimentary canal?
Think of the alimentary canal as being a tube that carries and processes food. The liver processes/cleans blood and stores energy, and is not directly associated with the processing of food...therefore not part of the alimentary canal.
The digestive tract is also called the alimentary canal?
The digestive tract is called alimentary canal because its parts form a long tube through which we absorb the nutrition in our food. The word "alimentary" comes from the Latin word for nourishment, alimentum.
Where Food is moved through the alimentary canal?
colon
What is the muscular movement responsible for the movement of food through the alimentary canal?
The muscular movement of the intestinal canal is called peristalsis.
Where does food move by peristalsis?
In alimentary canal from throat to stomach.
What is the path of a bolus of food through the alimentary canal?
stomach
