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What is the function of a muscular pharynx?
The function of the pharynx is to transfer food to the mouth to the esphagus and warm, and moiston and filter air before it moves into the trachea.
Muscular waves or contractions that move food are called?
Peristalsis is the term used to describe the muscular waves or contractions that move food through the digestive tract. These contractions help propel the food from the esophagus to the stomach and then through the intestines for digestion and absorption of nutrients.
Food moves down the esophagus towards what?
From the oesophagus the food moves towards the stomach. Oesophagus acts as the passage way from mouth to stomach. Stomach lies in your abdomen. The mouth is above the thorax. The gap is filled in by the oesophagus.
What is an pharynx?
Food enters the mouth. The pharynx acts as a suction pump; its muscular walls draw in food. In the pharynx, the pharyngeal glands secrete mucus.
What is it when walls are muscular and food moves down?
Peristalsis is the process of muscular contractions in the walls of the digestive tract that helps propel food down the gastrointestinal tract. It allows for the movement and digestion of food through the esophagus, stomach, intestines, and ultimately out of the body.
What organ does food move through on its way to stomach?
Food moves through the esophagus on its way to the stomach. It is a muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach and uses peristalsis to push food down.
What is the function of a muscular pharynx?
The function of the pharynx is to transfer food to the mouth to the esphagus and warm, and moiston and filter air before it moves into the trachea.
A muscular canal that carries food from the mouth to the stomach?
The esophagus is the muscular tube connecting the mouth and the stomach.
What is the Muscular canal that carries food from the mouth to the stomach?
Esophogas
Does food from a bird pass from the stomach into it's gizzard?
from a birds mouth uncheawde food passes into the crop, which stores the food until it absorbs enough moisture to move on. the food enters the stomach and is parcially digested. then it moves into the muscular gizzard.
What is the muscular contraction called that moves food through the stomach?
peristalsis
What is the muscular movement that moves food through out the digestive system?
Peristalsis.
What moves food from the mouth to the stomach?
mucsles
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 do you name the muscular action that moves food through the digestive system?
Peristalsis
Food moves from the mouth to the stomach though what?
The oesophagus
Is the esophagus the muscular tube through which ingested food passes from the pharynx to the stomach?
The esophagus is the muscular tube that allows for food to go from the mouth to the stomach. The trachea is the cartilagenous tube that allows air to go from the mouth to the lungs.
