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What does you stomach do?
Your stomach does a few things. Your stomach secreates acids to breakdown your food. Then the remaining nurtiants are taken into the rest of the body.
Where does mechanical digestion happen?
Mechanical digestion starts when food is chewed physically by the teeth (grinding and tearing the food), and the remaining steps of digestion continue from then on.
Where does the food go once you enter it through the mouth?
Once you enter food through your mouth, it travels down the esophagus into the stomach. In the stomach, the food is mixed with digestive acids and enzymes to break it down. From the stomach, the partially digested food moves into the small intestine where nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. The remaining waste then travels to the large intestine and is eventually passed out of the body as stool.
Can you explain gastroparesis to me?
Gastroparesis, also called delayed gastric emptying, is a disorder that slows or stops the movement of food from the stomach to the small intestine.Gastroparesis can occur when the vagus nerve is damaged by illness or injury and the stomach muscles stop working normally.
Can a human stomach grow back?
The human stomach does not regenerate or grow back in the same way some organs do. If a portion of the stomach is surgically removed (such as in a gastrectomy), the remaining stomach can adapt and stretch to accommodate food, but it does not regrow the removed tissue. Healing occurs, but the lost capacity and structure are permanent.
What is a J-shaped muscular sac that stores food and helps to digest food?
The stomach stretchy muscular sac holds food.
What churns and mixes food?
The stomach the stomach the stomach's job is to churn and mixed and digest food until it's a liquid.
What does the stomach do to your food?
The stomach breaks down your food. When you swallow your food, it lands in the stomach. It is broken down by stomach acids and moved into the intestines.
What role do the muscles play in the digestion of food?
Smooth muscles in the digestive tract slowly move from the esophagus to the stomach where it is mixed with stomach acid and enzymes and then released into the small intestine where small particles are absorbed. The remaining food, which is indigestible, is held in the colon in water is reabsorbed. Eventually, that is expelled from the body as feces.
What comes next after the mouth?
After the mouth, food travels down the esophagus, which connects to the stomach. In the stomach, it is mixed with digestive juices and broken down further. From there, the partially digested food moves into the small intestine, where nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. The remaining waste then continues to the large intestine before being excreted.
What is the structure of the digestive system leaving the stomach?
It goes through into the small intestine, where villi take out most of the liquid of the crushed food from the stomach and any nutrients, and then to the large intestine, where the remaining liquid is drained, to the rectum, where the waste was stored, and then it leaves the body.
What does the stomach carry?
The esophagus carries boluses of food from the mouth to the stomach.
