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What is the next step after digestion of food in the small intestine?
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∙ 12y ago
After food is digested in the small intestine, it passes through to the rectum then anus, where the undigested food comes out as waste.
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What does the small inteston do?
The small intestine is a part of the digestive tract, and is the next step after digestion in the stomach. Specifically, the small intestine is involved in digestion and absorption processes. It receives bile and pancreatic juices that aid in further digestion of material, and diffuses digested food through its thin walls and allows nutrients to move into the bloodstream to feed cells throughout the body.
What organs are connected to the stomach?
your esophagus and small intestine are attached to your stomach.
Digestion in the small intestine?
Digestion and absorption. Yummy! The length of the the small intestine allows for more absorption time and its epithelium has specialized villi and on the villi has microvilli adding to its absorption ability. Although digestion does begin in the oral cavity turning the food we eat into a bolus, and the stomach does it's job by turning the bolus into chyme, most of the digestion and absorption takes place in the small intestine. The stomach will squeeze out chyme, in small quantities at a time, into the first part of the small intestine: the duodenum, which is where most of the digestion will take place thanks to more secretions by the gallbladder and pancreas. Then it gets moved along into the jejunum of the small intestine; more absorption along the way, and finally the to the last part of the small intestine, the ileum. At this point everything will have been digested and most of the nutrients will have been absorbed, and now off to the large intestine for its next journey out into the world...life is good!
Why is the small intestines the main part of the digestive system?
The small intestines are important in the digestive system. There are small finger like structures in the Small intestines called villi, these villi extract the nutrients and take it into the blood stream. Without the small intestines you would not be able to extract nutrients from the food.
After the small intestine which comes next in the alimentary canal?
The large intestine, also called the colon, comes next.
What is the difference of pH in the stomach and pH in the small intestine?
The stomach serves first as a receptacle for swallowed food. Second, it begins the chemical digestion of the food by bathing the food in acid, turning it into kind of mush. The small intestine is where the nutrients are absorbed from the food. Anything that is not absorbed into the bloodstream is considered waste and fiber. This is passed on to the large intestine where is is eventually eliminated.
What is the digestion process?
First, the food is in the mouth, where it is chemically digested by enzymes in the saliva, and mechanically digested by the teeth. Next, the food goes down the esophagus, and it takes about 6 seconds. The food then goes in the stomach, where churning occurs. That's the mechanical digestion. The chemical digestion is the gastric juice. Next, it goes through the duodenum, and into the small intestine. The mechanical is..idk...and the chemical is the bile.The nutrients and vitamins are absorbed into the blood. Then the food goes into the large intestine, where the water is sucked out of the un-digested waste and arrives at the rectum waiting to be released by the anus. *flush*
After the stomach which come next in the alimentary canal?
Small intestine
How are the villi of the small intestine important to the digestive system?
Digestion and absorption. Yummy! The length of the the small intestine allows for more absorption time and its epithelium has specialized villi and the villi have microvilli adding to its surface area and absorption ability. Although digestion does begin in the oral cavity turning the food we eat into a bolus, and the stomach does it's job by turning the bolus into chyme, most of the digestion and absorption takes place in the small intestine. The stomach will squeeze out chyme, in small quantities at a time, into the first part of the small intestine: the duodenum, which is where most of the digestion will take place thanks to more secretions by the gallbladder (stores bile) and pancreas (produces bile). Then it gets moved along into the jejunum (I always thought that would make a great doggie name) of the small intestine; more absorption along the way, and finally the to the last part of the small intestine, the ileum. At this point everything will have been digested and most of the nutrients will have been absorbed, and now off to the large intestine for its next journey out into the world...life is good!
What prepares fats for digestion in the small intestine?
Fat is digested in small intestine. As Fat does not mix with water, large Fat globules are there and such they can not be digested by the pancreatic enzyme called 'Lipase' in short time. For that 'Nature' has evolved a very good solution. Bile salts are released by gall bladder under hormone released, called as 'Cholecystokinin'. Bile contains bile pigments to be excreted in the intestine and bile salts 1) Sodium taurocholate and 2) Sodiumglaucocolate. Both of them reduces the surfacetensionin the intestine. So that Fat becomes split into very small size particles called as 'chylomicron'. This increases the surface area of the fat globules to very large extent. There by digestion of Fat becomes much easy. In the distal part of intestine bile salts are reabsorbed to be released for next digestion. This is called as 'enter o- hepatic' circulation.
Where is the food sent to from the stomach?
Food first enters the mouth where enzymes in your saliva mix with as you chew to break down carbs. Next the esophagus pushes the food mixture down (IT IS EVEN POSSIBLE WITH upside down. Then hydrochloric acid solution is added into the stomach were it dissolves the food into chyme which goes past the liver and pancreas were juices are added in aid of digestion. The small intestine is next were villi absorb the nutrients into the blood stream, then left over material move into the large intestine were water and any left over small amounts of nutrients are, then left over waste exits the anus.
What comes next after the gullet in your body?
Small intestine
