GENERAL ANATOMY
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
Question
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What churns food and breaks it down further using strong acids?
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Stomach
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Salivary glands
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Liver
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The stomach muscles churn and mix the food with digestive juices that have acids and enzymes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Acid that is released into the stomach from glands in the stomach wall. It helps digest food. Gastric acid is made of hydrochloric acid.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stomach. Glands in your stomach lining make stomach acid and enzymes that break down food. Muscles of your stomach mix the food with these digestive juices.
Detailed explanation-4: -The stomach is a muscular bag and it churns the food to help break it down mechanically as well as chemically. The food is then squeezed through a second sphincter into the first part of the small intestine, called the duodenum.
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