function of mucuos secreted by stomcach
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Gastric mucus forms a layer about one millimetre thick that lines the stomach, protecting the organ from highly acidic gastric juice and preventing the juice from digesting the stomach itself.
Mucus protects the lining of stomach from its own secretions of hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid kills any bacteria which may enter the stomach with food.It also makes the medium in the stomach acidic (which is necessary for the proper action of digestive juices on proteins). food into simpler substances.
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