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What is a wave like muscular movement that pushes food through the alimentary canal is known as the?
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Food moves through the digestive tract as a result of peristaltic motion, or peristalsis.
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What is the wave of muscular movement that pushes food through the digestion system?
Peristalsis .
Why is fiber good for the digestive system?
Fiber stimulates the muscular response (peristalsis) which pushes food in its assorted stages of digestion through the alimentary canal.
What is the waves of muscular movement that pushes food through the digestive system?
Peristalsis is the term for the waves of muscular movement that push food through the digestive system. Peristalsis is accomplished through the activity of smooth muscle.
What is the wave of the muscular movement that pushes food through the digestive system?
Peristalsis is the term for the waves of muscular movement that push food through the digestive system. Peristalsis is accomplished through the activity of smooth muscle.
What does your gullet do?
Pushes food into your stomach using a muscular movement called peristalsis.
What is the correct medical term meaning muscular wavelike move it to transport food through the digestive system?
Food travels down the esophagus or intestines by a muscle movement called "Peristalsis" that constantly pushes the food down into the stomach.
What is the squeezing movement called that pushes food through the digestive system?
peristalsis
How is food moved along the alimentary canal?
The involuntary motion that moves food through the alimentary canal is called peristalsis and is a wavelike contraction and relaxation of the intestinal wall smooth muscles. It pushes food along the intestine.
What pushes food into the stomack?
Peristalsis (rhythmic muscular squeezing) of the esophagus.
What is the movement the pushes food down called?
Peristaltic movement
The movement of food through the digestive tract is regulated by?
The movement of food through the digestive tract is regulated by muscles. Muscles produce a narrowing which pushes the food through each of the digestive organs until it reaches the entrance of the stomach.
What is the esophagas job?
It is a muscular tube that pushes food down from the throat to the stomach
