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Do the gastrocolic reflex triggers mass peristalsis?
Yes, the gastrocolic reflex can trigger mass peristalsis in response to food entering the stomach. This reflex helps move food through the digestive tract by increasing colonic motility after a meal.
What moves food mass in a small softball to the rear of the mouth where it is swallowed?
your muscles do and the process is called peristalsis.
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
The squeezing motion that pushes food through the digestive system is called what?
Peristalsis.
What is the muscular contractions of the esophagus?
peristalsis.
In which place does peristalsis not occur?
. Peristalsis does not occur in the...
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 the name of Wave like process that moves food down the esophagus?
Peristalsis is the term for the wavelike motions of the esophagus.
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.
What is absence of peristalsis?
achalasia (absent or ineffective peristalsis)
Muscular contractions of digestive tract?
this is called Peristalsis
What are the wave of muscle contractions that pushes food through the digestive system?
Smooth muscle in the walls of the digestive tract contract and form a movement called peristalsis.
