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What is the physical change in food when it enters the esophagus?
the physical change in the change in food when the enters esophagus is when it has a chemical breakdown in your mouth with a mechanical breakdown the chemical breakdown is when your salivia is making the food moist the mechanical is when you chew the food so it easier for it to enter the esophagus and so the salivia can get it moist then your esophagus uses muscles to push the food down into your stomache
How does the esophagus contribute to the digestive system?
The esophagus moves food from the throat to the stomach. Its function is strictly transport, as it provides no breakdown of food.
How does the esophagus perform mechanical digestion?
Peristalsis. The movement of muscles bringing the food to the stomach.
How do the digestive muscular and skeletal system work together to breakdown food?
The smooth muscles of the muscular system can be found in the esophagus. The esophagus pushes food down into the stomach where further digestion begins.
What does a horse's esophagus do?
A horse's esophagus is responsible for transporting food from the mouth to the stomach through a process called peristalsis, which involves rhythmic contractions of smooth muscle. It helps facilitate the digestion of food by passing it down to the stomach for further breakdown and absorption of nutrients.
How would the teeth aid in an adult pigs breakdown of food?
The teeth would grind its food so that the food is in smaller pieces to slide down the esophagus easier, of course with the saliva that helps it.
What is the food passageway posterior to the larynx?
The esophagus is the food passageway posterior to the larynx.
A part of the digestive system between the mouth and the stomach?
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What happens to food when it goes down the esophagus?
the food is then forced down the esophagus.
What receives food from the esophagus?
The stomach receives food from the esophagus. Once food travels through the esophagus, it enters the stomach where digestion begins.
Tube carrying food from the mouth to he stomach?
The digestive system the esophagus. Food goes from your mouth and goes down your esophagus then to the stomach blood goes around the food and the liver takes what the blood absorbed down
Name two regions of the digestive tract where mechanical food breakdown processes are very important?
The mouth (by chewing) and the stomach (by gastric motion).
