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  2. Human digestive system - Wikipedia

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    The human digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract plus the accessory organs of digestion (the tongue, salivary glands, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder). ...

  3. Digestion - Wikipedia

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    Digestion is the breakdown of large insoluble food compounds into small water-soluble components so that they can be absorbed into the blood plasma.In certain organisms, these smaller substances are absorbed through the small intestine into the blood stream.

  4. File:Digestive system diagram numbered.svg - Wikipedia

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    Sistem pencernaan; Pencernaan; Wikipedia:Gambar pilihan/2007; Wikipedia:Gambar Pilihan/42 2007; Wikipedia:Gambar pilihan/Ilmu pengetahuan/Biologi; Templat:Diagram sistem pencernaan manusia; Usage on incubator.wikimedia.org Wp/liv/Rištīngli sūolsistēm; Usage on kk.wikipedia.org Тамақ қорыту; Usage on km.wikipedia.org

  5. Digestive enzyme - Wikipedia

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    Table of the different major digestive enzymes. Digestive enzymes are found throughout much of the gastrointestinal tract.In the human digestive system, the main sites of digestion are the mouth, stomach, and small intestine.

  6. Extracellular digestion - Wikipedia

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    Extracellular phototropic digestion is a process in which saprobionts feed by secreting enzymes through the cell membrane onto the food. The enzymes catalyze the digestion of the food, i.e., diffusion, transport, osmotrophy or phagocytosis.

  7. Anus - Wikipedia

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    In mammals, invertebrates and most fish, [1] [2] the anus (pl.: anuses or ani; from Latin, 'ring' or 'circle') is the external body orifice at the exit end of the digestive tract (), i.e. the opposite end from the mouth.

  8. Gastric acid - Wikipedia

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    A typical adult human stomach will secrete about 1.5 liters of gastric juice daily. [3] Gastric juice is the combination of gastric gland secretions including the main component of hydrochloric acid (gastric acid), gastric lipase and pepsinogen. [4]

  9. Liver - Wikipedia

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    The liver is a major metabolic organ exclusively found in vertebrate animals, which performs many essential biological functions such as detoxification of the organism, and the synthesis of proteins and various other biochemicals necessary for digestion and growth.