ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stomach: Your stomach creates digestive juices and breaks down food. It holds food until it is ready to empty into your small intestine. Small intestine: Food mixes with the digestive juices from your intestine, liver and pancreas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The small intestine is the most important organ of the digestive system as it serves both, for digestion and absorption. It receives two digestive juices; the bile and the pancreatic juice in the duodenum. These two juices virtually complete the digestion of starch, proteins, carbohydrates, etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main function of the stomach is to store food and release it to the intestines at a rate whereby the intestines can process it. The stomach mixes the food and grinds it into a finely divided chyme that increases the surface area of the food in preparation for digestion.

Detailed explanation-4: -The stomach is a primary digestive organ and an important step in the delivery route of food to the duodenum. As such, issues related to this organ may affect the nutritional wellbeing of a patient by not permitting him or her to receive these essential nutrients by means of this digestive path.

Detailed explanation-5: -Regions of the digestive system can be divided into two main parts: the alimentary tract and accessory organs.