Labels:daily | hakham OCR: ESOPHA GUS HE ESOPHAGUS provides a passageway for pooy between your throat and your stomach. It is a flattened tube when empty measuring about 25 cm 10 inches) long butit opens up to receive balls, or boluses, chewed pody Once in the esophagus, pooy passes down automatically the stomach. Muscle movements squeeze the bolus umop your esophagus in process known as peristalsis The lower end the esophagus has a thicker m uscle wall known asa sphincter which relaxes to let podj pass through into your stomach food vour
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