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The stomach uses mechanical and chemical processes to turn food into chyme. Mechanically, it contracts and mixes the food with gastric juices, breaking it down into smaller pieces. Chemically, gastric juices, which contain hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes like pepsin, help to liquefy the food and initiate protein digestion. This combination of mixing and digestion transforms the food into a semi-liquid substance known as chyme.
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What two structure are connected by the pyloric sphincter?
The pyloric sphincter connects the stomach to the small intestine. It controls the flow of partially digested food (chyme) from the stomach into the small intestine for further digestion and absorption of nutrients.
Do you get lines on the stomach when two weeks pregnant?
No. When you turn heavily pregnant you will.
What two substances change food into chyme?
The two substances that change food into chyme in the stomach are hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes. Hydrochloric acid helps break down food particles and kill bacteria, while digestive enzymes specifically target proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in the food to further facilitate the digestion process.
What two things enter the blood stream directly from the stomach?
Caffeine and alcohol enter directly from the stomach.
What are the names and functions of the stomach sphincters?
The stomach has two primary sphincters: the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and the pyloric sphincter. The LES, located at the junction of the esophagus and stomach, prevents the backflow of stomach contents into the esophagus, protecting it from acid reflux. The pyloric sphincter, situated between the stomach and the small intestine, regulates the passage of partially digested food (chyme) from the stomach into the duodenum, ensuring proper digestion and absorption.
What are two things you can do to help the digestive system stay healthy?
Half the stomach food & quarter stomach water
What takes place in the small intestine?
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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Why H. pylori is not destroyed by stomach acid?
Granted pepsin could kill a cell by hydrolyzing crucial proteins, it doesn't specifically destroy cells. It is a protease, a protein-digesting enzyme. There are two reasons why pepsin does not, under normal conditions, turn around and start digesting the cells of the host. Pepsin is only present in the stomach, where it is compartmentalized from the rest of the body. The mucous membrane protects the lining of the stomach so the stomach is not degraded by the enzymes or the strong hydrochloric acid. Secondly, pepsin is only active as an enzyme in very acidic environments like that of the stomach. Once the chyme of the stomach is dumped into the duodenum of the small intestine, the pH increases dramatically and the pepsin is denatured, no longer active to digest protein.
Name two things water does for your bodies?
it hydrates your body and breaks down food in your stomach.
What are two things that happen to food while it is in the stomach?
it is processed and its also bracken down into different parts
What two things happens to food in the stomach?
It's digested, and has the water and nutrients taken out of it for use in the cells.
