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What organ of the circulatory system absorbs nutrients and removes wastes?
Wastes and nutrients are carried in the blood and diffuse across the capillary walls.
The primary organ responsible for absorption of products of digestion?
The primary organ of digestion and absorption of nutrients is the small intestine, especially the duodenum.In general, you could say the stomach breaks down the food, the small intestine digests and absorbs the food, and the large intestine absorbs water.
What organ reabsorbs digested food?
The small intestine absorbs nutrients and the large intestine absorbs water and left over nutrients.
Which organ breaks down nutrients for the body to use and and filters bad chemicals out of the body?
liver
What is organ system that breaks down food and obsorbs nutrients?
None. The stomach and liver break down the food, and the guts absorb the nutrients.
What organ of the digestive tract absorbs more nutrients than any other organ?
Your intestine absorbs more nutrition than any other organ. It is about 20 feet long. But the surface area for the absorption is very large. It is estimated to be about 2750 square feet.
Name 3 organ that are in the digestive system?
Three organs in the digestive system are the stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. The stomach breaks down food using acids and enzymes, the small intestine absorbs nutrients, and the large intestine absorbs water and compacts waste for elimination.
Which organ absorbs nutrients into the bloodstream more than any other organ?
The digestive system, basically the small intestines.
What organ processes nutrients in the human body?
The small intestine is the primary organ responsible for processing nutrients in the human body. It absorbs nutrients from food through its walls and transfers them into the bloodstream to be circulated throughout the body. Additionally, the liver plays a key role in processing and storing nutrients as well.
What do the organ of the digestive system do?
breaks down food into basic nutrients and packages unused digestive wastes for disposal
What organ breaks up food and absorbs it?
There are various organs in the digestive system that have the function of breaking down the food that one person consumes, starting with the mouth, where teeth and saliva start the process needed to convert the food into the 'bolus', which then passes through the esophagus to the stomach, where more processing takes place, through the aid of gastric juices, finally, the processed food goes to the small and large intestine. It's in the small intestine where the nutrients of the food are absorbed into the blood.
What organ absorbs the most food?
The small intestine absorbs most of the nutrients in the food and transports it to the large intestine where the water will be sucked.
