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It is a long tubing which allows food to be tranferred to the small intestine through peristalsis. No digestion occurs in the esophagus.

+++ The first sentence is incorrect. It is the tube from mouth to stomach, not to the intestine, but it is right that digestion does not occur within it.

Peristalsis is the series of muscle contractions that move food through the intestines.

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The oesophagus is a muscular tube that stretches from your epiglottis to your stomach. When you swallow, the oesophagus squeezes your food into small balls called 'bolus' through the use of 'peristalsis'. This is a form of physical digestion. Peristalsis is the contracting and relaxing of muscles, and in the case of the oesophagus this muscle movement pushes the food down to your stomach, where the digestion process will continue.

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the job of the escophagus is to deliver the food to the stomach.

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the oesophagus' job in the digestive system is to bring the food that the mouth chewed down to the stomach

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The main job of the esophagus is to bring food and drink from the oral cavity to the stomach.

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The esophagus is 'just' a tube that gets food from the mouth to the stomach.

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it must be something........

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it connects the mouth to the stomach

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