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What helps push food down to the back of the mouth where it is swallowed?
The tongue is a muscle which pushes food to the back of the mouth, where it the food is then swallowed.
What is a ball of chewed up food?
A ball of chewed up food is called a bolus. It forms in the mouth during the chewing process and is then swallowed to move down the esophagus and into the stomach for further digestion.
What is it that makes food get absorbed in ones mouth?
Saliva in the mouth makes it easier for food to be swallowed and digested.
What helps push the food to the back of the mouth where it is swallowed?
Tongue
Which term describes the return of the swallowed food into the mouth?
Regurgitation.
Is the esophagus the organ through which swallowed food pushes?
Yes, the esophagus carries food from your mouth to your stomach.
What is the return of swallowed food to the mouth called?
When food travels from the stomach back to the mouth, it is called regurgitation.In some animals, this is normally emesis, or vomiting. In ruminants such as cows, it is called chewing the cud. Birds normally regurgitate swallowed food to feed their young.
What does a mouth do during digestion?
Starches are broken down by amylase, the enzyme in saliva. Food particles are physically broken down by the act of chewing and grinding the food into a ball that can be swallowed (called a bolus).
What is the digestive function of the mouth?
The mouth plays the first part in digestion. While the teeth chew the food to enable it to be swallowed, enzymes in the saliva begin breaking the food down.
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 is a food that is swallowed and brought back up to the mouth again for further chewing in cattle and sheep?
Cud.
