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How many stomachs do humans have?


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Stomach:

  1. Stomach is the major organ of the alimentary canal.
  2. It produces digestive juices such as pepsin, HCL, etc., which help to digest the ingested food and churn it into simpler pieces.
  3. Humans only have a single stomach analogous to vertebrates.
  4. Whereas ruminants such as cows, giraffes, etc., have four compartments inside their stomach which enable them to digest cellulose found in plants.

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