Food digestion begins in oral cavity where mechanical digestion plays a main function. Food is ground by teeth’s chewing and tongue’s stirring. After it enters into stomach from pharynx and esophagus, food undergoes mechanical digestion from muscles of stomach walls and chemical digestion from gas...
What is the role of the esophagus in digestive system of a human being? Describe where in the digestive system microorganisms are found and two (2) ways that they contribute to our digestion. How is carbohydrate digested in our body?
Digestion actually starts in the mouth; food is chewed and mixed with saliva to form a clump of food called a bolus that can be swallowed. This bolus travels down the esophagus to the stomach. The stomach secretes hydrochloric acid, pepsin, and lipase to start to break down proteins and fa...
Salivary is responsible for moistening the food when it is inside the mouth so that food gets inside the alimentary canal easily. The moistening effect of the food is important so that the food can pass through the canal easily in the form of a bolus. Peristaltic movement facil...
Step 2: Esophagus. ... Step 3: Stomach. ... Step 4: Small Intestine. ... Step 5: Large Intestine, Colon, Rectum and Anus. Does your body use all the food you eat? Digestionis the process that our body uses to break food down into basic elements such as sugars, lipids, fats, ...
Well, here at the stomach, that tube takes the form of a muscle sack. The stomach has several jobs—it takes food from the esophagus, breaks it down with gastric juice (stomach acid + enzymes), and then passes it on to the small intestine. In fact, the stomach makes around4liters of...
Bile is a digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. During bile reflux,digestive fluid backs up into the stomachand, in some cases, the esophagus. What are the three functions of bile? Bile is digestive fluid made by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. It...
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(6) some Shensi food spicy food (including onions, garlic), stiff food containing plant cellulose and more vegetables and should be used with caution, Because of irritation or dross, excessive food can cause varicose veins and bleeding of the esophagus. (7) low protein diet, advanced liver ...
your brain to the large intestines: down your neck, through your chest, around your heart, around your lungs, and through your abdomen and intestines. Below youresophagus, the two sides join once more to form the "vagal trunk," which goes down into your abdomen before branching off once ...