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How does the food get from the stomach to the small intestine?
Food leaves the stomach and enters the small intestine through the pyloric sphincter, a muscular valve at the end of the stomach. This process is controlled to ensure that the small intestine can properly digest and absorb nutrients from the food.
What happens to the acid when it leaves your stomach?
When acid leaves the stomach, it enters the small intestine where it is neutralized by bicarbonate secreted by the pancreas. This helps to prevent damage to the lining of the intestine. The remaining acid is further neutralized in the small intestine by alkaline secretions.
Where does chyme go after the pyloric valve opens?
Chyme passes through the pyloric valve from the stomach into the small intestine. Once in the small intestine, nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream while waste products continue through the large intestine for further processing and removal from the body.
What happen to the food you have eaten as it goes to the stomach?
Your body uses what it needs, and the rest is expelled from your system, if you get my drift. The food is broken up into particles, moves through your intestines and whatnot, and then exits. As usual, there are always better ways to get the answer, but that is the general bottom line.
4 substance that enters and leaves through the cell membrane?
food enters, waste leaves
The soupy liquid which leaves the stomach and enters the small intestine is called .?
Chyme.
What the stomach does in the digestion system?
The stomach digests the proteins in a meal. When it is finished digesting those proteins, the food leaves the stomach to be digested more and absorbed in the small intestine.
How does the food get from the stomach to the small intestine?
Food leaves the stomach and enters the small intestine through the pyloric sphincter, a muscular valve at the end of the stomach. This process is controlled to ensure that the small intestine can properly digest and absorb nutrients from the food.
What is the short section of the small intestine that leaves the stomach?
The duodenum is the section of the small intestine that is attached to the stomach.
How does the small intestine and the stomach work together?
the stomach churns the food making it into smaller particles. also there are enzymes in the stomach that break up protiens and can only survive in stomach acid. they do this so that the food will not burn the small intestine. Bile is released from the liver into the stomach that help to break up fats. as the food passes through the small intestine its nutrients are absorbed by the villi and are taken into the blood stream.
What happens to the acid when it leaves your stomach?
When acid leaves the stomach, it enters the small intestine where it is neutralized by bicarbonate secreted by the pancreas. This helps to prevent damage to the lining of the intestine. The remaining acid is further neutralized in the small intestine by alkaline secretions.
During digestion what food group leaves the stomach first?
which of the following foods leaves the stomach first?
What does food pass through when it leaves the stomach?
The small intestine.
What valve controls the movement of food between the stomach and small intestine?
The valve that controls the movement of food between the stomach and small intestine is called the pyloric sphincter. It regulates the passage of partially digested food from the stomach into the small intestine for further digestion and absorption.
Where does the liquid that leaves the stomach go?
Once it leaves the stomach, the partially digested contents (technical term - "chyme") enter the small intestine at the duodenum. As the chyme passes through the small intestine, further digestion takes place, as well as the absorption of useful nutrients.
When food leaves the stomach is it completely digested?
No, it still has to go through the small intestine, and the large intestine.
What is the path the food travels through the digestive system?
The food starts in the mouth, travels down the esophagus to the stomach, travels from the stomach to the small intestine, travels then to to large intestine, and exits the body through the rectum then the anus.
