Sense of course of a working life first attested 1803. v. 1590s, to charge at a tournament, from career (n.). The meaning move rapidly, run at full speed (1640s) is from the image of a horse passing a career on the jousting field, etc. Related: Careered; careering.
Contractions of the stomach muscle, called peristaltic waves, grind, crush and mix the food producing a liquefied substance called chyme.. The pyloric sphincter separates the stomach from the duodenum. This valve keeps food and gastric juices in the stomach until liquefied enough to proceed into the duodenum.
The duodenum precedes the jejunum and ileum and is the shortest part of the small intestine, where most chemical digestion takes place. In humans, the duodenum is a hollow jointed tube about 25â38 cm (10â15 inches) long connecting the stomach to the jejunum.