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What is the role of the stomach after the mouth is finishes to bolus the food?
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After the mouth has finished chewing and forming the bolus, the stomach's role is to further break down the bolus through the process of mechanical and chemical digestion. The stomach muscles contract to mix and churn the bolus, while gastric acid and enzymes are secreted to help break down the food into a semi-liquid mixture called chyme. Additionally, the stomach helps control the rate at which chyme is released into the small intestine for further digestion and absorption.
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What is it called when food is going down the esophagus?
The chewed up lump of food is known as a bolus.
What is a ball-like masticated lump of food?
The mix of food and saliva made in the mouth is called a bolus.
What anatomic structure does the bolus pass through?
The bolus, which is a mass of chewed food mixed with saliva, passes through the esophagus, which is a muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.
Where does peristalsis begin?
After food is chewed into a bolus, it is swallowed to move it into the esophagus. Smooth muscles will contract behind the bolus to prevent it from being squeezed back onto the mouth, then rhythmic, unidirectional waves of contractions will work to rapidly force the food into the stomach. This process works in one direction only and its sole purpose is to move food from the mouth into the stomach. In much of the gastrointestinal tract, smooth muscles contract in sequence to produce a peristaltic wave which forces a ball of food (called a bolus while in the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract and chyme in the stomach) along the gastrointestinal tract. Peristaltic movement is initiated by circular smooth muscles contracting behind the chewed material to prevent it from moving back into the mouth, followed by a contraction of longitudinal smooth muscles which pushes the digested food forward.
What is ball of food gathered by the teeth tongue and salivary glands?
In digestion, a bolus (from Latin bolus, ball) is a mass of food that (with animals that can chew) has been chewed at the point of swallowing. Under normal circumstances, the bolus then travels to the stomach for further digestion.
What kind of food is bolus?
Bolus isn't a specific kind of food. A bolus is a chewed up mass of food that is (generally) on its way from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the medical term meaning mass of food moving from your mouth to your stomach?
A bolus
What is the oesophagus used for in the digestive system?
It Is used to carry the bolus of food from the mouth to the stomach.
What goes from your mouth to your stomach?
Food---but once it is chewed, on its way to the stomach it is called 'bolus'
What is it called when food is going down the esophagus?
The chewed up lump of food is known as a bolus.
What makes food into a small lump called a bolus?
Food is transformed into a small lump called a bolus through the process of chewing and mixing it with saliva in the mouth. The mechanical and chemical breakdown of food in the mouth helps form the bolus, which is then swallowed and passes through the esophagus into the stomach where further digestion occurs.
What is bolus un the stomach?
A bolus is a lump of food
What is a ball-like masticated lump of food?
The mix of food and saliva made in the mouth is called a bolus.
What anatomic structure does the bolus pass through?
The bolus, which is a mass of chewed food mixed with saliva, passes through the esophagus, which is a muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.
How is the food bolus and chyme produced and where is it found within the digestive system?
Bolus is food that has been broken down in the mouth. It can be found in the mouth after chewing, in the esophagus, and in the stomach before digestion. Chyme is food that has been broken down in the stomach and small intestine. It can be found in the stomach after digestion, the small intestine, and the large intestine before it becomes feces.
When food is in the stomach what is it called?
bolus
What moves a bolus of food from the mouth to the stomach?
first it goes through a door called the epigladus, then goes through the rset of you esophagus then is dessoulved by your inzime juices.
