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What is the name of the process that moves food along the esophogus?
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Peristalsis
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What is the role of the esophogus?
it is a muscle tube that moves food
What is the tube through which food moves via peristalsis but no digestion takes place?
The esophagus moves food via peristalsis, but no digestion occurs in the esophagus. It connects the mouth and stomach.
Which process moves food through pharynx?
which process moves food through pharynx
When someone swallows food what is the food tube called?
Esophogus
What serves as a passage way for food and air?
Esophogus
What is the name of the wave like constraction that propel food along the gut?
Peristalsis is the process by which smooth muscle moves a mass of food (called the food bolus) through the digestive system. There is circular smooth muscle and longitudinal smooth muscle in the digestive tract. Contraction of circluar smooth muscle keeps the food bolus from moving "backward" along the digestive tract by decreasing the diameter of the tract behind the bolus. Contraction of the longitudinal muscle in the digestive tract propels the food bolus "forward" in the digestive tract.
What is the esophogos job?
The job of the esophogus is to transport chewed food to the stomach.
What is the name of Wave like process that moves food down the esophagus?
Peristalsis is the term for the wavelike motions of the esophagus.
During what process does the cardiac sphincter open involuntarily?
the cardiac sphincter opens involuntarily during peristalsis, which is the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along the oesophagus down to the stomach. :)
What structure hepls move food to the pharynx?
which process moves food through the esophagus
What serves as a passage way for both air and food?
the esophagus, of course
What is the long tube that food passes through to reach the stomach?
esophagus
