Role Of The Stomach Flashcards

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The gastric juices of the stomach

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Hydrochloric acid and digestive enxymes that continue the breakdown of food

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Churning action of the stomach works w the gastric juices by

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Converting food into chyme

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Chyme

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Semifluid mass of partly digested food that passes out of the stomach, through the pyloric sphincter, and into the small intestine

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