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What is a J-shaped muscular sac that stores food and helps to digest food?
The stomach stretchy muscular sac holds food.
What churns and mixes food?
The stomach the stomach the stomach's job is to churn and mixed and digest food until it's a liquid.
What does the stomach do to your food?
The stomach breaks down your food. When you swallow your food, it lands in the stomach. It is broken down by stomach acids and moved into the intestines.
What does the stomach carry?
The esophagus carries boluses of food from the mouth to the stomach.
What does the stomach produce to help digest food?
The stomach produces an acid to help digest food.
What is food like after digestion in the stomach?
Food becomes semisolid after digestion in stomach.
What receives food from the esophagus?
The stomach receives food from the esophagus. Once food travels through the esophagus, it enters the stomach where digestion begins.
How does the stomach decontaminate food?
The stomach releases enzymes that kill bacteria in food and balance pH. The stomach also breaks down and digests food.
What type of tissue does acid in your stomach remove?
The acid in your stomach, primarily hydrochloric acid, helps break down food and kill harmful bacteria. It does not remove tissue per se, but it can damage the protective mucosal lining of the stomach if it is compromised, leading to conditions such as gastritis or ulcers. This lining is made up of epithelial tissue, which produces mucus to protect the stomach from the corrosive effects of the acid.
If you are fed by an IV for your whole life and never ate a meal would you really need a stomach.?
I am not a medical professional, but it would seem to me that as long as you were getting the nescesarry nutrients into your body via the IV, then a stomach would not be needed, as all the stomach does is break down food. The breakdown occurs so that your colon can digest the food and remove the nutrients. You would not need the food if you were being fed through an IV, so the stomach would be pointless.
Which structure does food pass from the mouth to the stomach?
• Esophagus Passes food from the mouth to the stomach
What happen when food couldn't reach the stomach?
The stomach breaks up and digests the food people eat. If something within the stomach and digestive system is not functioning properly food will not digest properly. This can lead to stomach pain and a build up of undigested food in the stomach.
