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OCR: STOMACH "HE STOMACH is a flexible bag surrounded by muscle lies on the left : side of your abdomen beneath dome -sha ped. muscular sheet called the diaphragm. When it is full, the stomach may contain up to 1.5 litres (21/2 pints) of food. Food enters the stomach from long muscular tube called the oesopha gus. Food may be stored in the stomach for two to four hours. Muscles in the stomach wall contract and relax, mixing the pody with digestive substances called enzymes. This produces liquid called chyme which passes into the small intestine contrac