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-Mechanical digestion of chewing.

The food chewed is called bolus


-Chemical digestion of carbohydrates by amylase begins

-Consist of involuntary muscle which channel the bolus from mouth to


The organs system that breaks complex food
the stomach by down into small
the peristalsis molecules that are absorbed into the
process
bloodstream and can be used as nutrients for cell body
-Chemical digestion of protein begins

-The final digestion of carbohydrates, protein, and lipid continues until they are
completed
-The site where the nutrients are absorbed to the bloodstream at the villus
-Produce some enzymes such as lipase, amylase and protease and transport it to the initial part
of the small intestine which is duodenum

-The site where the process of absorbing water and salts from the materials that has not
been digested as food and get ridESOPHAGUS
of any products left over
-Storage of feces before it is excreted from the body
MOUTH

Digestive system is connected to immune Digestive system is also connected to the


system. The bacterial along the digestive circulatory system where the nutrients will
system will protect the alimentary canal absorbed from the villi into the
from the outside invaders from the food bloodstream to be transported to the cells
such as bacteria. STOMACH
needed the nutrients.

LARGE INTESTINE PANCREAS


 The average person produces 2
pints of saliva every day. That is
1. Gastritis is the condition
32 ounces, or 2 cans of soda.
where the stomach is a
SMALLINTESTINE
6. Your body can move your redness and swelling of the
food through the digestive stomach lining. It can be
system even while you are caused by drinking too much
standing on your head. It is not alcohol or eating spicy food
connected to gravity because it where these habits increase
works with muscles. the acidity in the stomach.
 The small intestine is about 22-
2. Hemorrhoids are swollen,
In the mouth, amylase23 in feet long while the large
saliva starts to break
intestine is only about 5 feet
down starches into maltose veins
enlarged and the
thatfood
form
swallowed into the esophagus. After passing through the the anus
chewed called bolus islong. inside and outside
and rectum. It can be
 reached
esophagus, the bolus When youthe arestomach
first born,which
you has hydrochloric acid that increase the
caused by having chronic
don’tpepsin
efficiency of protease and have anyto of the healthy
digest the protein into polypeptides. At this stage, or
constipation or diarrhea
bacteria your system needs to
the food called chymedigest
is passed to the first section of the small sitting for
intestine a long time.
called
food.
duodenum. The bile  that
The is produced
acids by the isbile
in your stomach and is stored in the gallbladder in
strong
excreted as well as pancreatic
enough toenzymes that is created by the pancreas. The pancreatic
burn your skin
enzymes consists of lipase will break down the fat into fatty acids and glycerol, trypsin
will break up protein and amylase reduces starches into simple sugars. At the end
section of the small intestine called ileum, all the nutrients is absorbed there. Fatty acids
go into the lymphatic vessel, amino acids and simple sugars flow into capillaries. Then
the food that has not been digested will passed through the large intestine to be
eliminated as feces. Rectum is the storage for feces before it is excreted from the body.

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