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It contracts and relaxes your muscles to aid in the digestion of food in the intestines and stomach.
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∙ 15y agoPeristalsis is the progressive wave of contraction and relaxation of a tubular muscular system, esp. the alimentary canal, by which the contents are forced through the system.
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What are the waves of contraction called that move the food to the stomach?
Peristalsis. The process of peristalsis begins in the esophagus when a bolus of food is swallowed. The strong wave-like motions of the smooth muscle in the esophagus carry the food to the stomach, where it is churned into a liquid mixture called chyme.
Which process propels the food through the digestive tract?
the process is peristalsis
What propels foods through the digestive tract?
peristalsis plays a large role in moving food through the digestive tract
Which organs use peristalsis?
Our Oesophagus' use Peristalsis to squeeze food down into our stomach. That's all I can think of! !
Rhythm like movement of the muscle in the walls of the GI tract?
The rhythmic muscular contractions of the digestive system are called peristalsis.
Is a principal function of smooth muscle peristalsis?
Yes
What is an example of a involuntary body function?
Heart beat,peristalsis
What helps move undigested waste materials to help the intestines function efficiently?
feces
Food moves through the digestive tract by wavelike contractions called?
Peristalsis is a series of involuntary smooth muscle contractions along the walls of the digestive tract that move food through the digestive tractperistalsis
What is the muscular contractions of the esophagus?
peristalsis.
In which place does peristalsis not occur?
. Peristalsis does not occur in the...
The squeezing motion that pushes food through the digestive system is called what?
Peristalsis.
Smooth muscle propels food through the alimentary canal by a process called?
The process in which muscles propel food through the alimentary canal is called peristalsis.
Peristalsis in the small intestine is the function of?
1- progression of the chyme toward the ileocecal valve 2- spread out the chyme along the intestinal mucosa as the chyme enters the intestines and elicits peristalsis the later spread the chyme along the intestine and this process intensifies as additional chyme enters the duodenum . on reaching the ileocecal valve , the chyme sometimes blocked for several hour until the person eats another meal, at that time agastroileal intensifies peristalsis in the ileum and force the remaining chyme
What is absence of peristalsis?
achalasia (absent or ineffective peristalsis)
Muscular contractions of digestive tract?
this is called Peristalsis
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.
