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Digestive System In The Human Body

Digestive System In The Human Body

Digestive System In The Human Body

The digestive involves mixing choreographed food with digestive juice (digestive juice) including strong acids, detergent bile salts, and active enzyme. The body the maximizes the absorption of the ingested nutrients after this substance useful substances are absorbed, they are transported through the circulatory system to celluar cells, which use for energy or as new molecules to build and maintain tissues and organs. Indeed, the digestive system in the “food on wheels” of the body. In each individual, the digestive system from to anus is about 450 cm (almost 15 feer) wow... long is not it! Of this length, 395 cm (about 13 feet) consists of the large intestine and small intestine. 

Try to imagine 13 feet of rope with a diameter ranging from 1-3 inches all coiled in your stomach from the navel down. The tight arrangoment of the abdominal organs help explain why you feel the need to loosen your belt after consuming large amouts of food.

Digestion is food mechanically and chemically into a simpler from so that it can be absorbed by our body calls. Gastrointestinal organs (digestive tract) runs from the mount to the anus. These organs are mouth, phrynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon and anal canal. Accessory organs include teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gall bladder, and pancreas.

The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract, a single opening extenting from the mouth to the anus, and associated accesory organs, mainly glandslocated outside the digestive tract that secrote fluide inside. The food is broken down little by little, until it becomes enough molecules that are small enough to be absorbed and the waste products eliminated. 

The digestive tract is a also call alimentary tract or alimentary canal (gastrointestinal tract), in consists of a long, bslanced tube that runs from the mouth to the anus. The tongue and teeth are accessory structures located in the mouth. Salivary glands, liver gallbladder and the pancreas is not part of the digestive tract and has a role in digestion, the term gastrointestinal tract refers only to the stomach and intestines but is often used another name for the gastrointestinal tract.