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Stomach:
• It is a muscular J- shaped thick-walled bag.
• Stomach is the widest part of alimentary canal.
• It receives food at one end from food pipe and opens into the small intestine on
the other end.
• Stomach churns the food to mix digestive juices.
• The food in the stomach is churned into semi solid. The churned semi-solid food
is called chyme.
• Gastric juice is secreted from the wall of stomach and mixed with food. Gastric
juice contains some enzymes, hydrochloric acid and mucus.
