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Digestive system
Title: Digestive system
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1989 | Pages: 8.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Digestive system
The digestive system is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus . Inside this tube is a lining called the mucosa. In the mouth, stomach, and small intestine, the mucosa contains tiny glands that produce juices to help digest food.
Two solid organs, the liver and the pancreas, produce digestive juices that reach the intestine through small tubes. In addition, parts of other organ systems (for …showed first 75 words of 1989 total…
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Even more important, though, are the intrinsic (inside) nerves, which make up a very dense network embedded in the walls of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and colon. The intrinsic nerves are triggered to act when the walls of the hollow organs are stretched by food. They release many different substances that speed up or delay the movement of food and the production of juices by the digestive organs.
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