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What organ is a stretchy sack?
stomach
Your stomach, which is attached to the end of the esophagus, is a stretchy sack shaped like the letter J. It has three important jobs: to store the food you’ve eaten.
What internal organ looks like bag?
The stomach is a muscular, elastic, pear-shaped bag, lying crosswise in the abdominal cavity beneath the diaphragm. Its main purpose is digestion of food through production of gastric juices which break down, mix and churn the food into a thin liquid.
What organ looks like a paper towel?
The walls of the small intestine are made of muscles that squeeze food and continuously move it. It contains digestive juices and other enzymes that help break the food into nutrients. The nutrients are then absorbed by the small intestines then go into your blood stream.
What do you call a pouch like organ in the digestive system?
The appendix, a small, hollow, finger-like pouch, hangs at the end of the cecum. Doctors believe the appendix is left over from a previous time in human evolution. It no longer appears to be useful to the digestive process.
What is a muscular bag like organ attached to the esophagus?
stomach – a sack-like, muscular organ that is attached to the esophagus. When food enters the stomach, it is churned in an acid bath.
What’s the heaviest organ in the human body?
What’s the largest solid internal organ? The largest solid internal organ is your liver. It weighs approximately 3–3.5 pounds or 1.36–1.59 kilograms and is about the size of a football. Your liver is located beneath your rib cage and lungs, in the upper right area of your abdomen.
Why does water soak into paper?
Paper is made of cellulose, which water molecules like to cling to. As a result, paper readily absorbs water. Paper towels are especially absorbent because their cellulose fibers have empty spaces—tiny air bubbles—between them.
Can you live without your pharynx?
You CAN’T live without me in the human body corporation! the human body needs food and water to survive because food is fuel to the body and you need the pharynx to get the food and liquid to the body. We also need oxygen to be able to breath and the pharynx is a passage way air to the lungs.