Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Digestion
- Regional difference
- The Journey
- Mouth
- 3 pairs of salivary glands
- secrete 98% water with mucous, enzymes (amylase and
lipase) and antibacterial agents
- Teeth
- masticate to breakdown food into bolus
- Pharynx
- Oesophagus
- Cardiac sphincter into
- Stomach
- Pyloric sphincter
- Small intestine
- Large intestine
- action of Peristalsis
(contractions from longitudinal
and circular muscles in Tunica
muscular) move bolus into
stomach via
- Epiglotis lifts to allow bolus into
Oesophagus and PREVENT entering
Trachea