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Digestive System

Digestive System. Our digestive system goes through nine steps: teeth, saliva, tongue, esophagus, stomach, liver/gall bladder, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine. Teeth.

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Digestive System

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  1. Digestive System • Our digestive system goes through nine steps: teeth, saliva, tongue, esophagus, stomach, liver/gall bladder, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine.

  2. Teeth • Teeth- Digestion starts here. The job of the teeth is to start tearing and crushing the food down into small enough pieces so that it can fit down our throats.

  3. Saliva • Saliva- The salivary gland in located underneath the back of our tongue. It creates our saliva or spit. This helps soften the food in the mouth so that it is easier to swallow.

  4. Tongue • Tongue- The tongue is a muscle that works with the food and saliva to form a "ball" that can be swallowed. Of course, the tongue also contains taste buds that helps us tell the difference between salty, sour, sweet, and bitter foods.

  5. Esophagus • Esophagus- The esophagus is simply a transportation tube from the mouth to the stomach. This sends food down the esophagus and prevents food from going down the trachea (or windpipe) and into our lungs.

  6. Stomach • Stomach- The first stop after the esophagus is the stomach. Once the food gets to the stomach the stomach uses chemicals to try to make the food tinier. These chemicals are called gastric juices. The food is moved around in the stomach and mixed with the chemicals for about 3 or 4 hours.

  7. Liver • Liver-At this point, our food is hit with more chemicals. The liver makes a chemical called bile and stored it in the gall bladder. When the gall bladder mixes bile with our food, it does an important job: breaking down the fat into tiny droplets.

  8. Gall Bladder • Gall Bladder- At this point, our food is hit with more chemicals. The liver makes a chemical called bile and stored it in the gall bladder. When the gall bladder mixes bile with our food, it does an important job: breaking down the fat into tiny droplets.

  9. Pancreas • Pancreas- The pancreas also adds a digestive chemical as the food leaves the stomach. This digestive juice works on breaking down the carbohydrates and the proteins.

  10. Small Intestine • Small Intestine-This is where the real digestion takes place. As the food passes through, it is mixed with the new chemicals and soon our "food" is now digested small enough to be put to use by the body. Along the walls of the intestine are thousands of tiny fingers called villi. Blood vessels (capillaries) in the villi can absorb the tiny food molecules and send them off to the rest of our body through the blood.

  11. Large Intestine • Large Intestine- Whatever the body cannot put to use is sent to the large intestine. The big job of the large intestine is to remove water. Food spends about 12 hours in the large intestine where it become feces and later leaves the body through the anal opening when we go to the bathroom.

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