GENERAL ANATOMY
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
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Breaking down food into smaller nutrients
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Getting rid of waste products
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Getting food into our bodies
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Getting nutrients into our bloodstream, so that our cells can use them
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ingestion is the process of taking in food through the mouth. In vertebrates, the teeth, saliva, and tongue play important roles in mastication (preparing the food into bolus). While the food is being mechanically broken down, the enzymes in saliva begin to chemically process the food as well.
Detailed explanation-2: -(in-JES-chun) Taking into the body by mouth.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ingestion. The first activity of the digestive system is to take in food through the mouth. This process, called ingestion, has to take place before anything else can happen.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ingestion – the taking in of food Food is taken into the mouth where it is physically broken down by the teeth into smaller pieces. The presence of food in the mouth triggers a nervous reflex that causes the salivary glands to deliver a watery fluid called saliva to the mouth.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ingestion is the act of eating food and letting it enter the body. After biting into a sandwich and chewing it, that process of the sandwich entering the oral cavity is ingestion.