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What kind of food is bolus?

Bolus isn't a specific kind of food. A bolus is a chewed up mass of food that is (generally) on its way from the mouth to the stomach.


What is the medical term meaning mass of food moving from your mouth to your stomach?

A bolus


How is the food bolus and chyme produced and where is it found within the digestive system?

Bolus is food that has been broken down in the mouth. It can be found in the mouth after chewing, in the esophagus, and in the stomach before digestion. Chyme is food that has been broken down in the stomach and small intestine. It can be found in the stomach after digestion, the small intestine, and the large intestine before it becomes feces.


What is a ball-like masticated lump of food?

A ball-like masticated lump of food is called a bolus. It is formed in the mouth during the process of chewing and mixing food with saliva before swallowing. The bolus helps in the smooth passage of food through the esophagus and into the stomach for further digestion.


What is the oesophagus used for in the digestive system?

It Is used to carry the bolus of food from the mouth to the stomach.


What goes from your mouth to your stomach?

Food---but once it is chewed, on its way to the stomach it is called 'bolus'


What makes food into a small lump called a bolus?

Food is transformed into a small lump called a bolus through the process of chewing and mixing it with saliva in the mouth. The mechanical and chemical breakdown of food in the mouth helps form the bolus, which is then swallowed and passes through the esophagus into the stomach where further digestion occurs.


What is bolus un the stomach?

A bolus is a lump of food


What anatomic structure does the bolus pass through?

A bolus (of food, for instance) passes through the esophagus.


When food is in the stomach what is it called?

bolus


What moves a bolus of food from the mouth to the stomach?

first it goes through a door called the epigladus, then goes through the rset of you esophagus then is dessoulved by your inzime juices.


What is food called in your mouth?

Bolus