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they squeez it through to the large intestine
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What is the wide tube of muscles connected to your small intestine?
These muscles are called the tunica muscularis.
Were does blood go to get nutrients?
the nutrients enter the blood in the small intestine. The lining of the small intestine is called the villi, that is were the blood is absorbed into the bloodstream
When you die does the small intestine shrink?
No, the length increases. When you are alive, the muscles are contracted in folds, and when you die, these folds relax, expanding the small intestine.
How does digested food reach the muscles?
It starts in your mouth. Then you swallow and it goes down your gullet into your stomach. The liver takes out the minerals.Then it goes down into the small intestine. The large intestine around the small intestine takes out the healthy stuff.It then goes through your small intestine and out through the anus.
What Part of your body starts with an I?
Ileum (part of the small intestine) Iris (in the eye) Intercostal muscles (the small muscles between the ribs) Islets of Langerhans (part of the pancreas)
What does the internal muscles do?
All muscles are internal. Presumably you mean the heart that pumps blood, the stomach that breaks up food, and small intestines that use peristalsis to move food through the small intestine.
Which comes first on the grasshopper the small intestine or large intestine?
Food enters the small intestine first. It enters the duodenum in the small intestine.
What describes the ileum of the small intestine?
The ileum of the small intestine is directly attached to the large intestine. It forms the majority of the small intestine. It is C-shaped and short. It is the middle portion of the small intestine. It is at the beginning of the small intestine.
What is on top of your small intestine?
The large intestine is on top of your small intestine.
Why is the small intestine called small intestine?
It compared in size to the large intestine it is about twice as small
The major site of nutrient absorption in the body is the?
The major site of nutrient absorption is the small intestine.
Why is the small intestine small?
The small intestine is said to be small because it's diameter is not as large as the large intestine.
