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Peristalsis is an automatic and important process that moves food through the digestive system.

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How do you use the word peristalsis in a sentence?

Peristalsis is the process that moves food through your digestive system.


What is a sentence for peristalsis?

There is no peristalsis going on in her stomach because she hasn't eaten anything all day.


Which organs use peristalsis?

Our Oesophagus' use Peristalsis to squeeze food down into our stomach. That's all I can think of! !


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 are some medical words that use the suffix stalsis?

The most common word with a -stalsis suffix is peristalsis. Others are anastalsis, bradystalsis, catastalsis, and diastalsis.


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.


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.