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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 a small mass of food called?
A bolus
What makes bolus?
The teeth are what makes bolus as they mash it up to form small lumps of food. the bolus is also soften by the muccin and made in a spherical shape by the help of tongue and palate this is when the bolus is completed
What is a ball-like masticated lump of food?
The mix of food and saliva made in the mouth is called a bolus.
When you bite into food your teeth tear and grind the food into a small ball called the blank?
bolus
What are a bolus and chime?
Food in the mouth is called bolus Once the food is passed it is called (becomes) chime
What is the mixture of saliva and food called?
That makes no sense...what about it???ther is noo answer
When food is in the stomach what is it called?
bolus
What is food called in your mouth?
Bolus
What is food called when swallowed?
bolus
What is the food broken down in the stomach called?
The medical term for it is "chyme" (KIME).
What makes the small lump of food called a bolus?
After it’s gone through mechanical digestion (chewing) and oral chemical digestion (salivary enzymes like amylase begin breaking down the constituent molecules of the food), and prior to entering the digestive tract via the esophagus.
