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What organ squeezes food down into the stomach is the?
The Esophagus
How does Mechanical digestion happens in the stomach?
The stomach squeezes to help break down food.
Muscular organ that squeezes food into chyme?
stomach
What is a muscular tube that squeezes food down to the stomach?
The esophagus is a tube made of smooth muscle. It carries food from throat to stomach. The muscular movements of peristalsis moves the food downward, as well as by gravity. However, you can be upside down and food will still get to the stomach.
How does muscle tissue help your stomach digest food?
muscle tissue helps to break down the food. :D
What is the function of the esopagus?
The esophagus functions as a tube that connects the throat (pharynx) to the stomach. Its main function is to transport food and liquids from the mouth to the stomach through rhythmic contractions called peristalsis.
What squeezes food down to stomach?
Your esophagus moves it so even when you eat upside down it will still go to your stomach. The series of muscle relaxations (infront of the bolus) and contractions (behind the bolus) that moved food down the esophagus is called peristalsis.
What happens in the stomach during the digestion of a ham sandwich that you ate for lunch?
The Ham Sandwich is broken down both chemically and mechanically because the stomach produces gastric acid that breaks it down. Also, the stomach squeezes the food to help it break it down which is mechanical digestion.
How does a human esophagus work?
The esophagus is made up of smooth muscle tissue. To swallow food down to the stomach, the tissue that is above the food in the esophagus contracts while the tissue below it loosens, allowing food to slide down. This is all involuntary.Biology/Chemistry Major
What does the muscle tissuue and the elastic tissue help the stomach?
Muscle tissue in the stomach helps contract and relax to aid in the mechanical digestion of food. Elastic tissue helps the stomach expand to accommodate the food we consume and then contract back to its original size once the food is processed. Together, these tissues work to physically break down food and move it through the digestive system.
What is the function of a grasshoppers esophagus?
the esophagus squeezes food to pass through down to the stomach.
How do enzyme helps digestion?
they speed up the breakdown of food in the stomach and small intestine
