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Is the small artery voluntary or involuntary?
voluntary
Is your digestive system voluntary or involuntary?
The vast majority is involuntary. The lower bowels can be controlled, but very limited in nature.
What is the wide tube of muscles connected to your small intestine?
These muscles are called the tunica muscularis.
Were does blood go to get nutrients?
the nutrients enter the blood in the small intestine. The lining of the small intestine is called the villi, that is were the blood is absorbed into the bloodstream
When you die does the small intestine shrink?
No, the length increases. When you are alive, the muscles are contracted in folds, and when you die, these folds relax, expanding the small intestine.
Muscle between stomach and first part of small intestines?
There is a bilayer of muscles in the intestines called the muscularis externa. There is an inner circular layer and outer longitudinal layer. These two layers are responsible for the slow regular propulsion of food called peristalsis.
How does digested food reach the muscles?
It starts in your mouth. Then you swallow and it goes down your gullet into your stomach. The liver takes out the minerals.Then it goes down into the small intestine. The large intestine around the small intestine takes out the healthy stuff.It then goes through your small intestine and out through the anus.
What is the illeocecal valve?
The iliocecal valve is an involuntary smooth muscle sphincter located between the ileum (small intestine) and the secum (portion of large intestine). Its function is to prevent backflow or reflux into the ileum.
What Part of your body starts with an I?
Ileum (part of the small intestine) Iris (in the eye) Intercostal muscles (the small muscles between the ribs) Islets of Langerhans (part of the pancreas)
How is food moved along the alimentary canal?
The involuntary motion that moves food through the alimentary canal is called peristalsis and is a wavelike contraction and relaxation of the intestinal wall smooth muscles. It pushes food along the intestine.
What do the muscles in the small intestine do?
they squeez it through to the large intestine
What pushes food through the small intestine?
Intestines are lined with what are called smooth muscle tissue. These muscles differ primarily from the muscles attached, for example, to your joints in that their movement is rhythmic and involuntarily controlled. (The heart is another example of smooth muscle movement.) It is this rhythmic, involuntary contraction that moves food through the intestines.
