Bangkok: Bangkok, city, capital, and chief port of Thailand. It is the only cosmopolitan city in a country of small towns and villages and is Thailandâs cultural and commercial centre. Bangkok is located on the delta of the Chao Phraya River, about 25 miles (40 km) from the Gulf of Thailand. It was formerly
This muscle inserts â all the muscles of mastication inserts onto the mandible because the mandible is the bone that moves to cause mastication. Itâs the bone which is involved in chewing. The temporalis inserts onto the coronoid process of the mandible. Thatâs this anterior process here. If we just have a look at that, it just inserts here.
This chewing reduces the size of the food particles and mixes them with saliva for easier swallowing. Before your food passes from the mouth and down your esophagus, salivary amylase, an enzyme in saliva, begins to digest the starch in your bread. That is the start of chemical digestion. The mass of chewed sandwich is called a bolus. You voluntarily swallow it, but the rest of the digestion-absorption process is involuntary. The passage of the bolus through the esophagus to the stomach occurs by peristalsis, a series of wave-like muscle contractions.