What do you call the wavelike contraction of the smooth muscles of digestive tract pushes food in small sections through the gastro-intestinal tube? A.mixing movement B.parietal movement C.contractile movement D.peristaltie movement
Peristalsis is a series of wave-like muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract. It starts in the esophagus where strong wave-like motions of the smooth muscle move balls of swallowed food to the stomach.13