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Functional Anatomy of Stomach Receptive relaxation During chewing and swallowing food, the stimulation of food to the receptors in mouth, pharynx, and esophagus reflexly causes the smooth muscle of the fundus and body of the stomach to relax, This process allows the stomach to accommodate a large amounts of food and fluid. Gastric emptying 1. Def. The process by which the chyme is expelled from the stomach into the duodenum is called the gastric emptying. 2. Control 1) stomach: stimulating factor, neuronal and hormonal 2) duodenum: inhibiting factor entero-g