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5 December, 18:52

Food is able to move down your esophagus by a wave of relaxing and contracting. This is called?

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    Peristalsis is the involuntary contraction of esophageal and intestinal muscles in a wavelike motion consisting of relaxing and contracting to move materials through the body
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