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Bolus (masticated food) enters the stomach through the esophagus via the esophageal sphincter. The stomach releases proteases (protein-digesting enzymes such as pepsin) and hydrochloric acid, which kills or inhibits bacteria and provides the acidic pH of two for the proteases to work. Food is churned by the stomach through muscular contractions of the wall called peristalsis - reducing the volume of the fundus, before looping around the fundus[3] and the body of stomach as the boluses are converted into chyme (partially digested food). Chyme slowly passes through the pyloric sphincter and into the duodenum of the small intestine, where the extraction of nutrients begins. Depending on the quantity and contents of the meal, the stomach will digest the food into chyme anywhere between forty minutes and a few hours. The average human stomach can comfortably hold about a litre of food
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Where does most of the digestive process take place?
Small intestine
Where does most digestion take place in the human body?
Most of the physical digestion takes place in the stomach, but the completion and absorption is done in the small intestine.
Where the most digestion takes place?
Small intestine
Most of the digestion takes place where?
Small intestine
Do mastication takes place in the small intestine?
Yes it does
What does small intestine do in digestion?
The small intestine is where the vast majority of digestion and absorption of food takes place.
Chemical digestion of fat takes place where?
Small Intestine.
Where does maximum absorption takes place in a vertebrate alimentary canal?
the large intestine
What does the small intestiene do?
Digestion and absorption of food and nutrients takes place in the small intestine.
Where does most chemical digestion take place and nutrients are absorbed into the blood?
chemical digestion takes place in the small intestine large intestine,mouth and stomach. Nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine and minerals in the large intestine.
Does water absorption takes place in the small intestine?
Water absorption takes place in both the small and large intestine's. Around 90% of water absorption takes place in the small intestines, equally between all three sections. The remainder of the water absorption to produce "formed" faeces takes place in the large intestines.
The intestines include the small intestine what purpose does the small intestine serve?
The small intestine is in the gastrointestinal tract after the stomach. It is followed by the large intestine. A lot of the digestion and absorption of food takes place here.
