Question

What is peristalsis ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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. ... The motion mixes and shifts the chyme back and forth.

Answer 2

Answer:

Peristalsis is the movements that the large tubes inside the body make automatically to push something out or along.