What is the digestive process?
It all starts when you eat food(or you drink). It first starts with your oesophagus, What is an oesophagus? the oesophagus is a squishy tube that leads food and drinks to the stomach.
After the oesophagus, food (or drink) will go to the stomach. What is a stomach?
The stomach is a weird misshaped organ that that starts the digestion stage. By the stomach, there is a duodenum. What is a duodenum? It receives partially digested food (known as chyme) from the stomach and plays a vital role in the chemical digestion of chyme in preparation for absorption in the small intestine. Many chemical secretions from the pancreas, liver and gallbladder mix with the chyme in the duodenum to facilitate chemical digestion. I got this information from the internet.
The liver is an essential organ that has many functions in the body, including making proteins and blood clotting factors, manufacturing triglycerides and cholesterol, glycogen synthesis, and bile production. The liver is a large organ that sits on the right-hand side of the belly. I got some of this information from the internet.
After the liver, it all goes into the small intestine. The small intestine lies between the stomach and the large intestine (colon). The small intestine's job (mainly) is to soak up nutrients.
The large intestine is very important. The large intestine, also known as the large bowel or colon, is the last part of the gastrointestinal tract and of the digestive system in vertebrates. Water is absorbed here and the remaining waste material is stored as faeces before being removed by defecation/egestion.
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