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When the food is in the large intestine, the majority of the remaining water is absorbed into the blood stream. It then passes into the rectum and anal canal, where it is excreted through the anus.
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What happens in large intestine?
The large intestine is attached to the posterior to the small intestine and as you maybe already know the small intestine is where food wastes go and bile is secreted into. The large intestine reabsorbs water from the ingested food particles before they enter the rectum and colon for excretion.
What organ is responsible for food and water absorption?
The villi in the small intestine assimilated dissolved food. Villi increase the internal surface area of the intestinal walls, allowing for a larger area of absorption.
Where does food go after the small intestine?
large intestine i think
Food passes from the stomach into the small?
The small intestine
What organ absorbs the most food?
The small intestine absorbs most of the nutrients in the food and transports it to the large intestine where the water will be sucked.
What happens after food has traveled through the small intestine?
it enters the large intestine
What happens to waste food in the large intestine?
What hasn't been processed by your stomach and metabolized by liver gets further drained until no nutrients can be further had.
What happens to the food not absorbed by the small intestine?
our body it will be tyred.
What happens to water in the large intestine?
It gets absorbed, except in cases of diarrhea.
What happens to the food in the stomach?
food in the stomach is digested in order to Increase its surface area of the food to be easily absorbed in the small intestines. What happens to food once it has entered the stomach is that gastric juices are secreted to help break down the food even more. In the stomach, food is mixed and broken up and is absorbed into the bloodstream.
What happens to undigested food in large intestine?
The undigested food is passed on to large intestine where water is absorbed from the undigested food and it become almost semi-solid. Now the undigested food is acted upon by putrefying bacteria which convert the undigested food into faeces are stored in the rectum from where the egected out through anus and it is controlled by anal sphincter.
What happens to the unabsorbed food in our small intestine?
the unabsorbed food in the small intestine passes through the ileocecal valve to the large intestine where, after the last few nutrients and fluids are reabsorbed, it is defecated.
What happens to food as it passes along the large intestine?
Some crazy shat happens involving your parents :)
What happens to chyme in the small intestine?
chemical digestions breaks the food apart
What does the large inestine do?
the large intestine gets all the food and air from what you have eaten and it desolves it.
Why is the placenta like an intestine for the fetus?
because the foetus gets food through placenta
What happens to food as it passes through the small intestine?
Digestion is completed and absorbed into the bloodstream
