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The digestive process
March 19, 2007, 8:39 pm
Filed under: Medicine Study, The Digestive System

Ingestion: Oral uptake of substances into the body.

Digestion: Mechanical and chemical conversion of food
into absorbable substances

Absorption: Substances passing through the walls in
the alimentary canal into the blood and
lymph stream.

Assimilation: Incorporation of nutritive material
into living tissue

Egestion (=elimination): Discharge of not absorbed
substances

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Is there an acid mixture I could make to replace real digestive juices to use for my science fair project?

Comment by Chris March 15, 2009 @ 7:24 pm

Can you trace a piece of food through the digestive tract beginning at the mouth? Please include the teeth and what each kind does.

Comment by Casmith October 18, 2009 @ 6:53 pm


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