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Peristaltic movement
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What is the squeezing movement called that pushes food through the digestive system?
peristalsis
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 pushes down the food?
The food is pushed through the Oesophagus by a process called Peristalsis.
What is the muscle action that pushes food down the esophagus and through the intestines called?
It is called deglutition.
What do you call the movement that pushes the food from the esophagus to the stomach?
Peristalsis is what its called. Im NT lying. its true.
What is the process that pushes food down the oesophagus?
"Actually the muscles around your digestive tract help move food through it." The rhythmic movement of these muscles is technically called peristalsis.
What pushes the food through the digestive system?
The organs that your food passes through pushes it along. E.g: The esophagus (aka: The gullet) squeezes and pushes the food down. That's why you can eat upside down without the food coming back up!
What is the wave of muscular movement that pushes food through the digestion system?
Peristalsis .
The movement of food substances up and down the stem of a plant?
It is called Translocation.
What does oesophagus do during digestion?
It takes food from the throat and pushes it down through the neck, and into the stomach. It moves food by waves of muscle contraction called peristalsis.
How does food get from the mouth to the throat?
your tongue pushes it down your throat
