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What is a long and narrow muscular tube that relaxes and contracts moving swallowed food into the stomach?
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What is the function of peristalsis?
It contracts and relaxes your muscles to aid in the digestion of food in the intestines and stomach.
What is the function of the muscle in the stomach?
It contractS and relaxes to churn the food and mix it with the bile and other digestive enzymes.
What muscular organ squeezes food into chyme?
The stomach mixes food, swallowed saliva, and gastric juices into a substance called chyme.
When the cardiac sphincter relaxes food enters the?
The cardiac sphincter or aka GE junction contracts at the distal end of the esophagus. So food enters into the stomach when the cardiac sphincter is relaxed.
What hole allows food from the stomach into the small intestine?
The hole that allows food from the stomach into the small intestine is called the pylorus. It is a muscular valve located at the lower end of the stomach. When it relaxes, it allows the partially digested food (chyme) to pass from the stomach into the small intestine.
Is the stomach mechanical digestion or chemical digestion?
It is both: Mechanical: The stomach is a muscular sack. It contracts and relaxes, sloshing and squeezing the food inside to break it down and to ease the job of the 'chemicals'. Another example is how many birds swallow stones to enhance the crushing and churning in their stomachs. Chemical: The conditions and enzymes within the stomach contribute to chemical digestion. Hydrochloric acid, for example, creates an acidic environment that denatures proteins; whilst enzymes such as pepsin react at a molecular level with peptides to cleave them apart.
Where does food go after being swallowed?
The Stomach
Sphincter controlling the movement of food from the stomach into the duodenum?
Pyloric sphincter controls the movement of food from stomach to duodenum. With parasympathetic or vagal stimulation it opens up or relaxes and with sympathetic stimulation it contracts or closes.
Is stomach mechanical or chemical digestion?
Both To further clarify: Mechanical: The stomach is a muscular sack. It contracts and relaxes, sloshing and squeezing the food inside to break it down and to ease the job of the 'chemicals'. Another example is how many birds swallow stones to enhance the crushing and churning in their stomachs. Chemical: The conditions and enzymes within the stomach contribute to chemical digestion. Hydrochloric acid, for example, creates an acidic environment that denatures proteins; whilst enzymes such as pepsin react at a molecular level with peptides to cleave them apart.
What is a J-shaped muscular sac that stores food and helps to digest food?
The stomach stretchy muscular sac holds food.
Does the stomach have muscle?
Yes. The stomach is a muscular organ.
You swallowed your boyfriends sperm and a day later you had a bad stomach ache is this because you swallowed?
no
