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By: Alexus Stephens, Zephrye Jackson, and Amaiya Coleman. The stomach. Parts of the stomach. Stomach Muscles. The stomach’s muscles break down all food and all chemicals into a liquid. Acid waves work on a consistent basis.
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By: Alexus Stephens, Zephrye Jackson, and Amaiya Coleman The stomach
Stomach Muscles • The stomach’s muscles break down all food and all chemicals into a liquid. • Acid waves work on a consistent basis. • The stomach is a muscular organ it can change its shape depending on the amount of food. • Acid waves work on a regular schedule to digest food.
Stomach Muscles • Although the stomach is a useful organ, people can, and have lived without a stomach if it has been removed because of disease! Now for diseases
Peptic Ulcer • The most common ulcer of an area of the gastric tract that is usually acidic and extremely painful!
Acid Reflux • A distillation technique involving the condensation of vapors and the return of this condensate to the system from which it originated from.
Gastroparesis • A condition consisting of a paresis of the stomach , resulting in food remaining in the stomach for longer time than normal.
Stomach Cancer • Refers to cancer arising from any port of the stomach.
Types of Stomach Ache’s • Constipation • Diarrhea • Food • Stress
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