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What is the squeezing movement called that pushes food through the digestive system?
peristalsis
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 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 lines your stomach wall and pushes food through your digestive system when you eat?
Cells and muscles.
The squeezing motion that pushes food through the digestive system is called what?
Peristalsis.
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 is a wave like muscular movement that pushes food through the alimentary canal is known as the?
Food moves through the digestive tract as a result of peristaltic motion, or peristalsis.
What keeps food moving through the digestive system?
Wave-like contractions of the smooth muscle called peristalsis moves food through the digestive system.The muscles in the lining of these organs contract and relax from above the food which pushes the food downwards. this process works even if you stand upside down. it can face the strongest force of gravity very easily.The digestive system helps the body digest food. Bacteria in the GI tract, also called gut flora or microbiome.
What are the wave of muscle contractions that pushes food through the digestive system?
Smooth muscle in the walls of the digestive tract contract and form a movement called peristalsis.
Why does your body need peristalsis?
It helps move food through the digestive track by creating waves in the walls of the "tube" which pushes the food down. Not sure where else this applies in the body.
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.
