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Oral input of food allows the closest inspection by sight and smell. As the maximum extension from the actual digestive organs, it allows food to be rejected (spit out), regurgitated (coughed up), or further modified (chewed more, saliva added, liquid added, temperature moderated). From this location, the teeth can have their associated purposes: for killing prey, for chewing, and as defensive weapons.
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Food is chewed and moistened here?
Food is chewed and moistened in the mouth. The teeth in the mouth do the chewing, and the saliva does the moistening and beginning of carbohydrate digestion.
What is a ball of chewed up food?
A bolus is a ball of chewed up food.
What is it called when food is going down the esophagus?
The chewed up lump of food is known as a bolus.
Why do you have cheeks?
Cheeks are required to form the walls of the mouth end of the digestive tract. Without cheeks food being chewed would just fall out the sides.
What are cud chewing animals called?
Cud-chewing animals are called ruminants. Ruminants are any hoofed mammal that digests its food in two steps. In the first step, the food is chewed and partially digested in the mouth. The food is then regurgitated and chewed again (the cud). This second step allows the animal to extract more nutrients from the food. Ruminants include cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo, deer, and camels.
Food is chewed and moistened here?
Food is chewed and moistened in the mouth. The teeth in the mouth do the chewing, and the saliva does the moistening and beginning of carbohydrate digestion.
Region that breaks down food mechanically?
The mouth is where food is chewed.
How did ancient china eat their food?
They put it in their mouth and chewed
In what system is food chewed and broken down by saliva?
mouth
What may happen to the food that we eat when mouth is not eorking well?
If your mouth isn't working right then your food will not get chewed up correctly.
What does the mouth do in the digestive?
The mouth makes the food more chewed up so that it can go down easier through the esophagus. The chemical processes in the stomach work better when the food is chewed and able to soak up the stomach acid. The mouth also secretes enzymes in the saliva to help break down starches that are in the food.
How did the Maya obtain food?
he put it in he mouth chewed it swolled it and whet to the toliet dose that help
Where is food chewed?
food is chewed in your molars.
Oropharynx is the passageway of food?
Yes, after being placed in the mouth and chewed, the food bolus is swallowed, passing through the oropharynx into the esophagus.
What is the various process of food propulsion?
Food enters mouth, as it is chewed, enzymes in the saliva begins to break it down. It is swallowed
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 part of the digestive system assists in food manipulation and swallowing?
Your tongue assists in food manipulation within the mouth, moving it to different areas of the teeth. It then assists in moving the chewed food to the back of the mouth for swallowing.
