"Actually the muscles around your digestive tract help move food through it."
The rhythmic movement of these muscles is technically called peristalsis.
Gravity and a small group of muscles that work in a wave motion
Peristalasis movement of esophagus
peristalsis
The food is pushed through the Oesophagus by a process called Peristalsis.
It takes food from the throat and pushes it down through the neck, and into the stomach. It moves food by waves of muscle contraction called peristalsis.
Peristalsis takes place in the oesophagus... It's a series of muscular contractions that pushes food down to the stomach.
Gravity is not necessary for the function of the human digestive system. Food is moved through its entirety by muscular action, beginning with the tongue (which pushes food to the back of the throat) and proceeding with the oesophagus itself.
Both have food that passes through it. The esophagus is a long narrow tube that pushes down food to the stomach. The stomach is a muscle covered sac that continuously churns food
by going down the gullet(oesophagus)
The tongue pushes down food (already moistened by saliva) into the Oesophagus.
The oesophagus contracts to push/move food along through it. This motion of contraction to move food along is calledperistalsis. The tongue just helps with moving the bolus (roundish ball of chewed food mixed with saliva) from the mouth cavity and into the oesophagus.
From the oesophagus the food moves towards the stomach. Oesophagus acts as the passage way from mouth to stomach. Stomach lies in your abdomen. The mouth is above the thorax. The gap is filled in by the oesophagus.
In the oesophagus (also known as the throat) the food is passed downwards to the stomach (the next step in the digestion system).To do this "the food pipe" must use what is known as the circular muscle layer and longitudinal muscle layer.
Your esophagus brings food down to the stomach.
From the oesophagus the food moves towards the stomach. Oesophagus acts as the passage way from mouth to stomach. Stomach lies in your abdomen. The mouth is above the thorax. The gap is filled in by the oesophagus.