Digestion is the process of breaking down and distributing food throughout the body. The digestive system comprises of the mouth and teeth at one end and the anus at the other. Between these two extreme ends, a long tube like structure with different names and different functions process the food materials into a usable form. One among them, the esophagus passes through the chest and joins the mouth to the stomach. The stomach extends to the small intestine or small bowel, which is a narrow long tube through which most of the food absorption into the bloodstream takes place.

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