Essays Tagged: "Chyme"

Digestive System- My directions were to start with the stomach and describe what happens to the food as it goes through the digestive system

e end of this process, this mixture of partially digested food and gastric juices is given the name chyme...From the stomach, the chyme travels through the pyloric sphincter valve (which opens when th ... structures the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The small intestine performs three major functions on chyme, it digests carbohydrates and fats, completes the digestion of proteins, and absorbs digested ...

(2 pages) 36 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays

Digestive System

tect the stomach from its digestive enzymes. The food is then mixed in the stomach, turning it into chyme(digested food). The muscular pumping motion called peristalsis churns the chyme around.The chy ... Here, bile from the gallbladder and enzymes from the pancreas and intestinal walls combine with the chyme to begin the final part of digestion.Bile liquid is created in the liver, and stored in the ga ...

(2 pages) 29 0 1.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Science Digestive

ed liquid in the video. This new acidic fluid composed of gastric juice and digested food is called Chyme. !! The chyme exits the stomach through the pyloric sphincter and enters the small intestine w ... cecum, the transverse, and sigmoid, the remaining water and salts are absorbed and the last bit of chyme is converted into feces. !! The Rectum stores the waste/feces until nervous stimulation initia ...

(3 pages) 3 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology