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| Liquified food in the stomach after 3 to 4 hours |
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| Flap of skin that covers the Trachea when swallowing |
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| a tube , no digestion occurs, here 12 feet long, peristalsis helps move foodfood into the stomach |
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| a second tube that leads to the lungs |
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| is a j-shaped muscular organ to the left of the liver, churrning of the food with gastric jucies helps in mechanical digestion, food stays for about 3-4 hours in that time it becomes chyme |
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| muscular contraction of the esophugus which allows you to stand on your head and still be able to swallow |
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| gastric juices or hydrochloric acid |
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| helps kill germs and bactaria |
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| 20 feet long by 1 inch wide, the remaining carbohydrates and protiens are broken down, it also absorbes nutrients, this happeneds because it is lined with villi |
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| hairlike projections inthe small intestine which absorb nutrients |
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protease->
lipase->
carbohydrates-> |
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amino acids
fatty acids and glycerol
monosaccrides |
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| 6 foot by 2 inchesin diameter,store and compact the undigestible material, absorbes water |
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| enzyme that begins the digestion of protiens |
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| helps kill germs and bactaria |
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| where remaining solid wastes are stored temporarialy |
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| process by which large food molecules are broken down into smaller food molecules |
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| process by which large pieces of food are cut and crushed in to samller pieces |
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