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Which type of muscle is responsible for peristalsis along to digestive tract?
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What part do muscle in digestion?
Peristalsis - the moving of food along through the digestive system.
Muscular wave -like movement to transport food through the digestive system?
In vertebrates food is moved along the length of the digestive system by?
peristalsis
What is the movement called that pushes food along the esophagus?
As a simplified response, muscles in the tongue pushes food into the pharynx. However, it's a little more complicated than that. This address has good info on your question: http://www.nature.com/gimo/contents/pt1/full/gimo1.html
What is a feature of peristalsis?
This is the movement of the intestines caused by the smooth muscle and it causes chyme (partially digested food) to move along the length of the intestine.
Series of involuntary muscle contractions along the walls of the digestive tract?
Peristalsis.
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 part do muscle in digestion?
Peristalsis - the moving of food along through the digestive system.
What is the name of the wave like constraction that propel food along the gut?
Peristalsis is the process by which smooth muscle moves a mass of food (called the food bolus) through the digestive system. There is circular smooth muscle and longitudinal smooth muscle in the digestive tract. Contraction of circluar smooth muscle keeps the food bolus from moving "backward" along the digestive tract by decreasing the diameter of the tract behind the bolus. Contraction of the longitudinal muscle in the digestive tract propels the food bolus "forward" in the digestive tract.
What type of muscle undergoes peristalsis?
Peristalsis involves circular smooth muscles and longitudinal smooth muscles in the effort to produce waves of contractions in a tube. This process is used in digestion to move the food (bolus) through the esophagus and the chyme (partially digested food) through the intestines.
What are muscular movements along digestive tract?
Peristalsis. This process moves ingesta along the digestive tract.
Are skeletal muscles responsible for the pumping action of the heart?
no MyocardiumThere are three types of muscle: skeletal muscles which move the bones, smooth muscle which produces waves (peristalsis) along a tube. For example, the digestive tract and muscle found only in the heart. This is called myo- (muscle) -cardium (heart).
Muscular wave -like movement to transport food through the digestive system?
What type of muscle tissue is not striated and not under voluntary control?
Smooth muscle is not striated and is not under voluntary control. Your digestive system contains smooth muscle that is involuntary, which causes the digested food to move along the digestive tract in a motion called peristalsis.
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.
What is muscular waves that move materials along the digestive tract?
Peristalsis. The process of peristalsis begins in the esophagus when a bolus of food is swallowed.
In vertebrates food is moved along the length of the digestive system by?
peristalsis
