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You are possibly thinking of the movements called peristalsis which pass along your gut. Peristalsis is a wave of contraction and relaxation of circular and longitudinal muscles which passes along the wall of the gut. Its function is to push food along.

This movement could be described as similar to the contraction and relaxation of muscles in the body wall of worms during locomotion.

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