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What physiological processes occur in the stomach after a bolus of food enters it?

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Mechanical and chemical digestion.

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After passage through the esophagus, the bolus will enter the stomach and undergo mechanical and chemical digestion. Mechanical digestion in the stomach occurs via peristaltic contractions of the smooth muscle from the fundus towards the contracted pylorus, termed propulsion.

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