The function of the esophagus is to move food from the mouth to te stomach. It is muscles that move the swallowed food slowly down and into your stomach
The Esophagus
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The peristaltic movements are muscle contractions and its function on the esophagus is to push food down into the stomach and prevent it from going back into the esophagus.
It lubricates the esophagus and assists in swallowing.
smooth muscle
Esophagus
to swallow earthworm sperm.The Esophagus in the Earthworm is the name for the muscles in the worms body and is used in the process of digestion. Sort of like the intestines in a human body.
Esophagus
the ESOPHAGUS is a tube in the throat which food goes down when you swallow. (swallowing is mostly involuntary because the esophagus is made of smooth muscle, a type of muscle that works without control of the brain.) The food goes down into the stomach. On the top half of the esophagus is a sphincter, as well as on the bottom half. they help close off the esophagus.
The function of the esophagus is to connect the throat to the stomach. This allow food and/or liquid to reach the stomach after it is swallowed.
The throat contains the esophagus and the trachea. The esophagus is for food and the trachea is for air.