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The muscle contractions that propel food through your intestines are controlled by what nervous system?
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Does the central nervous system propel food through the intestines?
No, the autonomic nervous system does.
What are paristalsis?
Peristalsis is a wave-like series of muscle contractions in the body, like in the esophagus and intestines, designed to aid the movement of solids through the digestive system.
What is it that moves food along through the digestive tract even when we are lying down or floating in the weightlessness of space?
Peristalsis, a series of muscle contractions in the intestines and stomach that help to push the food through your digestive tract.
Why is it important that food moves slowly through the small intestine?
It takes several hours for the small muscle contractions to move the meal through the 32 feet of intestines.
What is perstalsis?
Food is pushed down the oesophagus by a series of contractions. The part of the oesophagus just above the ball of food contracts and pushes it down. then it relaxes and the next part of the oesophagus contracts. this wavelike movement, controlled by muscles, is called peristalsis. It occurs all the way down the alimentary canal.
What actions are controlled by smooth muscles?
Any action that is not voluntary, ie: stomach, intestines, peristalsis (the movement of food through the GI tract)
What term describes a series a wavelike contractions of the smooth muscles in a single direction?
The wavelike contractions of the smooth muscle in the gastrointestinal system are called peristalsis. The purpose of peristalsis is to push boluses of food along the gastrointestinal tract. This is achieved by the waves of contractions in the smooth muscle followed by relaxation of the muscles, pushing the bolus (ball of food) a bit further along the digestive tract with each contraction. These contractions move food or chyme through the esophagus, and intestines. The same contractions also move urine down the ureter to the bladder.
What controls the sweat glands?
Your sweat glands are controlled by autonomic nervous system. They get the nervous supply through the sympathetic nerves. But functionally they are parasympathetic nerves, because the acetylcholine is secreted over there at the terminal end.
What process involves muscle contractions that move food through the esophagus molecules?
Different types of muscle contractions
What does the intestine empty into?
Stomach -> Small Intestines -> Large Intestines -> Through Anus and out of the body
Where does blood flowing through the intestines pass through on its way back to the heart?
All the blood flowing through the intestines passes through the liver on its way back to the heart.
What do the stomach small intestines large intestines do?
your stomach and small intestines break food down and anything that gets to your large intestines exits your body through the anus
