Food exits the stomach by passing through the:
A) cardiac sphincter.
B) lower esophageal sphincter.
C) pyloric sphincter.
D) hepatic sphincter.
C) pyloric sphincter.
Food exits the stomach through the pyloric sphincter. Food enters the stomach
through the lower esophageal, or cardiac, sphincter. There is not a hepatic sphincter on the
stomach.
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