Mastication chewing animation

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Animated food chewing and swallowing demo.

Food chewing Mastication mouth oral cavity buccal cavity ovula lips teeth molars jaw hard palate cheeks cheek muscle. jaw muscle base of tongue tongue action during chewing In digestion, eat with fork a bolus (from Latin bolus, "ball") is a ball-like mixture of food and saliva that forms in the mouth during the process of chewing (which is largely an adaptation for plant-eating mammals).It has the same color as the food being eaten, and the saliva gives it an alkaline pH.

Under normal circumstances, the bolus is swallowed, and travels down the esophagus to the stomach for digestion.

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