0
The food is pushed through the Oesophagus by a process called Peristalsis.
What else can I help you with?
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 movement the pushes food down called?
Peristaltic movement
How does food get from the mouth to the throat?
your tongue pushes it down your throat
Why frogs close their eyes when eating?
it pushes the food down it's throat
What is the esophagas job?
It is a muscular tube that pushes food down from the throat to the stomach
How does a frog engulps its food?
it catches it in its mouth, then pushes it down its esophagus by its eyes XD
What helps push food down to the back of the mouth where it is swallowed?
The tongue is a muscle which pushes food to the back of the mouth, where it the food is then swallowed.
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 a wavelike motion that pushes food downward?
Peristalsis is the wavelike motion of muscles that pushes food downward through the digestive tract. It helps propel food and liquids from the esophagus to the stomach and through the intestines for digestion and absorption.
Trachea allows air to draw into the lungs?
yes you have a esophagus for when you eat food that has muscles that pushes food down to your stomach, that's why you can swallow even if your upside down and you have a trachea for air.
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.
