 We take food through the mouth, digest and utilise it.

The food passes through a continuous canal which

begins at the buccal cavity ends at the anus. The canal
can be divided into various compartments:
(1) Buccal cavity
(2) Oesophagus
(3) Stomach
(4) Small intestine
(5) large intestine
(6) rectum
(7) anus
These parts together form the alimentary canal
 The mouth or buccal cavity functions as the starting
point of the digestive system. The buccal cavity begins
the digestion process by chewing the food into small
portions and making easier to travel down the
esophagus. The buccal cavity is also a tool in
communication, since we use it to form sounds and
words.
The buccal cavity is a part of the body also known
as the mouth.. Used both for speaking and as part
of digestion
 The function of the salivary glands is to make
saliva and help the bolus (soft mass of chewed
food) go down the esophagus easily. Saliva
contains enzymes which help break down food
to a form which the body can use.
 this is in it's simplest form, it's a tube running from the
throat to the stomach.
The tube that connects the pharynx (throat) with the
stomach. The esophagus lies between the trachea
(windpipe) and the spine. It passes down the neck,
pierces the diaphragm just to the left of the midline,
and joins the cardiac (upper) end of the stomach. In an
adult, the esophagus is about 25 centimeters (10 inches)
long. When a person swallows, the muscular walls of
the esophagus contract to push food down into the
stomach..
 Glands in the lining of the esophagus produce mucus,
which keeps the passageway moist and facilitates
swallowing.
Food is passed through the esophagus by using the
process of peristalsis. Specifically, it connects the
pharynx, which is the body cavity that is common to the
digestive factory and respiratory system with the
stomach, where the second stage of digestion is
initiated.
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The stomach's main function is digestion. It does this by:
Storing the food we eat.
Breaking down the food into a liquidly mixture called
chyme.
Mixing enzymes which is are chemicals that break down
food.
Slowly empties that liquidly mixture into the small
intestine.

The stomach uses pepsin (enzyme) and peptidase

(another enzyme) to break down proteins in your food.
The acid released by the stomach doesn't break down
food it only provides a good environment for the
enzymes to work in. By this point the food is mushy
and the stomach then passes this mixture on to the
small intestine which will further break down the food.
The stomach mixed the food with stomach acid to break
it down and digest it.
The small intestine is a long tube that is about 1 1/2
inches around and if you stretched it out it would
about 22 feet long. The small intestine has the
important job of breaking down the food mixture so
your body can absorb all the nutrients it needs from
food - vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates,
and fats.

The small intestine can't break down food for its

nutrients by itself - it gets help from three other
parts of the digestive system. These parts are the
pancreas, the liver, and the gallbladder. They are not
part of the digestive tract itself, but they help out by
sending different juices to the small intestine.
It takes about three hours for the food to become very
thin and watery. Lining the small intestine are
millions of fingers called villi. These absorb the
chemicals that we need from the food into the body
and pass through the wall of the small intestine and
into the blood. So now the eaten apple can really
get used by your body
 The large intestine is the thick, lower end of the
digestive system, containing the appendix, colon and
rectum. Its principle function is to reabsorb water and
maintains the fluid balance of the body. Certain vitamins
are also taken in through the large intestinal wall.
Further down the intestine, in the rectum, faeces are
stored as waste before it is eliminated. Another
function is to process undigestible material (fibre),
which makes up the bulk of the waste products.
The food after digestion is in a liquid form and once it
enters the large intestine, the large intestine tends to
absorb all the water to give some consistency to the
stools. So the main function of large intestine (colon) is
 The rectum is a muscular ring that is at the end of
the large intestine. Its function is to keep the
intestine sealed shut until the need to pass feces
arises. When that need arises it assists in the
moving of the feces out of the body.
The main function of the rectum is to act as a
temporary storage site for fecal matter before it is
eliminated from the body through the anal canal.
As the food you eat passes through the digestive
system, it is broken down and nutrients are
absorbed in the stomach, small and large
intestines. Fecal matter, which includes digestive
 juices, bacteria and fiber, continues to move into the
lower portion of the large intestine -- the rectum. The
rectum holds the feces until you push it out of the
body, through the anal canal, by having a bowel
movement.
The rectum is made up of muscular walls that are able
to expand to hold fecal matter. With this expansion of
the rectum, nerves in the area send signals to the brain
that you need to have a bowel movement and muscles
in and around the anal canal control the action. Adults
and older children are able to control these muscles,
relaxing them to release the feces from the rectum or
contracting them to avoid having a bowel movement.
 The anus is the opening of the digestive tract to
eliminate the leftover waste solids. Your food goes all
through the digestive actions before reaching the anus
to expel the rest that will not be used. The main
function of the anus is to dispose of waste products out
of the body. :)
The anus is to eliminate the leftover waste solids in the
body.
It is that part of the alimentary canal which excretes
the undigested food from our body in the form of
liquid waste.
to excrete solid body waste
 The gallbladder is a hollow system that sits just beneath
the liver.In adults, the gallbladder measures
approximately 8 centimetres (3.1 in) in length and 4
centimetres (1.6 in) in diameter when fully distended.It
is divided into three sections: fundus, body, and neck.
The neck tapers and connects to the biliary tree via the
cystic duct, which then joins the common hepatic duct
to become the common bile duct. At the neck of the
gallbladder is a mucosal fold called Hartmann's
pouch,where gallstones commonly get stuck. The angle
of the gallbladder is located between the costal margin
and the lateral margin of the rectus abdominis muscle.
 When food containing fat enters the digestive tract, it
stimulates the secretion of cholecystokinin (CCK). In
response to CCK, the adult human gallbladder, which
stores about 50 millilitres (1.7 U.S. fl oz; 1.8 imp fl oz) of
bile, releases its contents into the duodenum. The bile,
originally produced in the liver, emulsifies fats in partly
digested food.
 During storage in the gallbladder, bile becomes more
concentrated which increases its potency and intensifies
its effect on fats.
 The pancreas is a glandular organ in the
digestive system and endocrine system of
vertebrates. It is both an endocrine gland
producing several important hormones,
including insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and
pancreatic polypeptide, and a digestive organ,
secreting pancreatic juice containing digestive
enzymes that assist the absorption of nutrients
and the digestion in the small intestine. These
enzymes help to further break down the
carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids in the chyme.
 The pancreas can also be thought of as having different
functional components, the endocrine and exocrine
parts. Tumors can arise in either part. However, the
vast majority arise in the exocrine (also called non-
endocrine) part. Since the parts have different normal
functions, when tumors interfere with these functions,
different kinds of symptoms will occur.