Hi! My name is Mr. Carrot, and I'm going to take you on a tour through the digestive system today! First, as shown above, I enter the mouth or buccal cavity. The salivary glands begin pumping out saliva as soon as the tasty and wonderful meal enters your mouth. As you chew, saliva and I mix to break down large globules of food into little lumpscalled as BOLUS.
The bolus then goes down the oesophagus, a long, slender tube. By peristaltic action, the oesophageal muscles compress the bolus down to the stomach, our next destination.
Once in the stomach, hormones signals the stomach walls to produce acid, which dissolves the bolus into a liquid known as chyme. Hormones also tell the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas to begin producing bile juice.
From there, I enter the small intestine. The liver sends bile to the gallbladder, which holds it until I arrive. Tiny projections called villi absorb my molecules and the leftover fiber, water, and dead cells enter the large intestine.
Then I go via the colon or the large intestine. The majority of the fluid is drained from the colon by the dint of intestinal walls. This results in a mushy mass known as stool.
The big intestine the, deposits me in a tiny pouch, where I am retained until I exit the body via the anus. After a 30- to 40-hour journey through the digestive system, the digestion process comes to a conclusion at the anus.
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