Sense of course of a working life first attested 1803. v. 1590s, to charge at a tournament, from career (n.). The meaning move rapidly, run at full speed (1640s) is from the image of a horse passing a career on the jousting field, etc. Related: Careered; careering.
Contractions of the stomach muscle, called peristaltic waves, grind, crush and mix the food producing a liquefied substance called chyme.. The pyloric sphincter separates the stomach from the duodenum. This valve keeps food and gastric juices in the stomach until liquefied enough to proceed into the duodenum.
A peptic ulcer (stomach or duodenal) is a break in the inner lining of the esophagus, stomach, or duodenum. A peptic ulcer of the stomach is called a gastric ulcer; of the duodenum, a duodenal ulcer; and of the esophagus, an esophageal ulcer. Peptic ulcers occur when the lining these organs is eroded by the acidic digestive (peptic) juices that the cells of the lining secrete of the stomach secrete.