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What is a peristalsis?

What is a peristalsis? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (medicine) The rhythmic, wave-like contraction of the digestive tract that forces food through it.
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Description: Licorice increases the intestine movement, it stimulates enzymes and peristalsis.
Sporting activity and relaxation activate normal intestinal peristalsis and lead to a massive improvement of the symptoms.
Yoga helps your body reabsorb and expel gas by stimulating peristalsis, the muscle contractions that eliminate waste.
Muscular tube that transports food by peristalsis from the pharynx to the stomach.
Waves of muscle contractions called peristalsis force food down through the esophagus to the stomach.
The initial colonization of the walls of the ureter is in areas of turbulent flow which leads to paralysis of peristalsis.

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