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this is called Peristalsis
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What are muscular movements along digestive tract?
Peristalsis. This process moves ingesta along the digestive tract.
What type of muscular contraction breaks foods into sections in the intestine?
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Rhythm like movement of the muscle in the walls of the GI tract?
The rhythmic muscular contractions of the digestive system are called peristalsis.
What is the medical term meaning wave like contractions?
The medical term for wave-like contractions is peristalsis. This is the rhythmic muscular movements that helps propel food and other materials through the digestive tract.
What do muscular contractions have to do with our digestive system?
The muscular contractions move the food, mix it with digestive juices, and bring the digesting food in contact with the mucosa where absorption takes place.
What causes nonmechanical obstruction?
Nonmechanical obstruction, called ileus, occurs because the wavelike muscular contractions of the intestine (peristalsis) that ordinarily move food through the digestive tract stop.
Food moves along the digestive tract as the result of contractions of what?
smooth muscles.
Series of involuntary muscle contractions along the walls of the digestive tract?
Peristalsis.
What is the process that moves food through the digestive tract?
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What is the muscle action that mixes chyme with digestive juices while another muscular action that moves food through the digestive system?
The muscle action that mixes chyme with digestive juices throughout the digestive system is called Peristalsis. Peristalsis are wave-like of contractions and expansions of muscles. The muscles help to move the bolus (food) through the digestive tract. Peristalsis are located all over the digestive tract.
Food moves through the digestive tract by wavelike contractions called?
Peristalsis is a series of involuntary smooth muscle contractions along the walls of the digestive tract that move food through the digestive tractperistalsis
What is peristalses and what triggers it?
Peristalsis is a series of organized muscle contractions that occur throughout the digestive tract.
