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What is the term for Wavelike contraction of smooth muscles that move material through the digestive system?
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peristalsis
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What is the contraction of the digestive system?
Peristalsis is the name of the digestive tract muscles pushing the food along... Is this what you were referring to?
Peristalsis is example of what type of muscle?
Peristalsis is the contraction of the digestive muscles. Peristalsis is the contractions that occur in the smooth muscles of the body.
How do smooth muscles and sphincters keep food moving in one direction throughout the digestive system?
by peristalsis which is the rhythmic, involuntary contraction of the smooth muscles in the walls of digestive organs.
What is perisatalsis?
Peristalsis is the contraction of smooth muscles that cause food to move throughout the digestive tract.
What term describes a series a wavelike contractions of the smooth muscles in a single direction?
The wavelike contractions of the smooth muscle in the gastrointestinal system are called peristalsis. The purpose of peristalsis is to push boluses of food along the gastrointestinal tract. This is achieved by the waves of contractions in the smooth muscle followed by relaxation of the muscles, pushing the bolus (ball of food) a bit further along the digestive tract with each contraction. These contractions move food or chyme through the esophagus, and intestines. The same contractions also move urine down the ureter to the bladder.
What is peristalsis and how does it aid in digestion?
Contraction of smooth muscles to carry contents through the digestive tract. Examples are in the esophagus and small intestine.
What requires acetylcholine for contraction?
Anerobic contraction of muscles.
What is the rhythmic wavelike motion produced by smooth muscles in tubular visceral organs?
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.
The muscular action that propels food through the esopahgus is called?
Peristalsis is a symmetrical contraction of muscles which propagates in a wave down the muscular tube, more specifically the esophagus. In humans, peristalsis is found in the contraction of smooth muscles to propel contents through the digestive tract.In much of the gastrointestinal tract, smooth muscles contract in sequence to produce a peristaltic wave which forces a ball of food (called a bolus while in the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract and chyme in the stomach) along the gastrointestinal tract. Peristaltic movement is initiated by circular smooth muscles contracting behind the chewed material to prevent it from moving back into the mouth, followed by a contraction of longitudinal smooth muscles which pushes the digested food forward.
What is a wavelike motion that pushes food downward?
the muscles in your esophagus push your food down into your small intestines
What is peristalsis for?
peristalsis is basically the contraction and relaxation of muscle in digestive system which moves food along. for example if you have a staw with a drop of liquid in it, and you squeeze the straw just behind the liquid (this representing the muscular contraction), then the liquid will move away from where you are squeezing. so by the continuous contraction and relaxation of muscles in the walls of the digestive tract, movement of the food occurs. hence, the purpose of peristalsis is the movement of food along the digestive tract.
