The Digestive system Digestive System | Page 4

Anatomy

a) Mouth: Its located over the chin. Its function is to chew the food breaking it into little pieces, and then are mixed with saliva.

b) Esophagous: Start at the troath and ends at the stomach. Moves to the stomach.

c) Stomach: With its acids continues with its break down food process.

d) Small intestine: its 22-foot long, it mix the food with the pancreas and liver secretions.

e) Large Intestine: its 6-foot long. It is responsible for processing waste so that emptying the bowels.

f) Liver: Process the absorbed nutrient from the small intestine.

g) Pancreas: Regulates the sugar.

h) Anus: Exit of the process

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