Digestion Steps And Process Flashcards
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Digestion
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Starts in stomach process where ingested food is broken down to an absorbable form and breaks down into chyme
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Ingestion
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Food enters mouth, chewed and lubricated and moved downward to digestive tracts
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Absorption
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Liquefied food chyme enters where enzymes break it down further and makes it easily absorbed by villi in small intestines
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Excretion
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Liquified chyme enteres large intestine, very little digestion takes place,bas waste passes it becomes solid as water is reabsorbed then waste is finally collected in rectum and eliminated through your anus by brain signals