When you eat or drink food goes to your digestive system.
Food usually takes between 1-3 days.
The process of food breaking down is called digestion.
The tiny particles move out of the digestive system and they move into blood.
Then the blood carries them to every part of the body.
stomach
The stomach is a muscular sac which contains chemicals that helps digest food.
It secrets gastric juices which contains hydrochlorfic acid (HCI) and enzymes like pepsin to break down protiens.
3. Stomach churns down food into a semi liquid substance called chyme.
Large intenstine
Ceccum
The ceccum is the first part of the large intenstine.
Located at the junction of the small and large intenstine.
Ceccum recieves chyme from the ileum through the ilcocecal valve.
The appendix,a small finger-like structure,is attached to the
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