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body system
Term | Definition |
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Mouth | Food is chewed into smaller pieces and mixed with saliva here |
Liver | produces bile and removes toxins from your blood |
Gall bladder | Bile is stored here until it is needed |
Stomach | A muscular bag secrets gastric juice and mixes food around |
Pancreas | Produces some of the enzymes which are important for digestion |
Small Intestine | Digested food is absorbed here into the bloodstream |
Large Intestine | Undigested food goes here. Water and mineral salts from undigested food are absorbed |
Rectum | The last section of the large intestine(around small intestine) |
Esophagus | A long and narrow muscular tube that relaxes and contracts, moving swallowed food into the stomach |