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The esophagus carries food from the mouth to the stomach for digestion. It uses rhythmic contractions to push the food down and prevent it from going back up.

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What is the name given to the movement of the food along the oesophagus?

Peristalsis is the name given to the rhythmic movement of food along the oesophagus.


What moves food down the esophagus?

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.


Food passage posterior to the trachea?

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What is the biological term for the food pipe?

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Food moves down the esophagus towards what?

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Food moves from the mouth to the stomach though what?

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What is another name for the food tube or esophagus?

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Is Oesophagus same as gullet?

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