the esophagus is just the delivery guy. It just push the food down to your stomach. But what it also does is uses saliva enzymes to slide it down to make it soft and actually digestible. An important role.
No, the esophagus only functions in digestion. The trachea is the passageway for respiration.
stomach
That would be mechanical digestion.
absorption
Nutrients in the esophagus mainly pass through to the stomach via peristalsis, which is the coordinated muscle contractions that push food downward. Absorption of nutrients does not occur in the esophagus.
No chemical or mechanical digestion occurs in the esophagus, only propulsion, which is one of the six digestive processes.
The esophagus.
it sends broken down food to the stomach for digestion
digestion happens in these
The stomach receives food from the esophagus. Once food travels through the esophagus, it enters the stomach where digestion begins.
no
I think the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small intestine carry out digestion.