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"Actually the muscles around your digestive tract help move food through it."

The rhythmic movement of these muscles is technically called peristalsis.

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Gravity and a small group of muscles that work in a wave motion

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What pushes down the food?

The food is pushed through the Oesophagus by a process called Peristalsis.


What does oesophagus do during digestion?

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.


Does peristalsis take place in skeletal muscle?

Peristalsis takes place in the oesophagus... It's a series of muscular contractions that pushes food down to the stomach.


How does the food reach the oesophagus in the absence of gravity?

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.


What are the similarities and differences between esophagus and the stomach?

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


How does food get in your stomach?

by going down the gullet(oesophagus)


What is the tongue used for in the digestive system?

The tongue pushes down food (already moistened by saliva) into the Oesophagus.


What muscle pushes food through the esophagus?

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.


What moves food down the esophagus?

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.


What does an oesophagus do?

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.


What does the oesophagus in the digestive system?

Your esophagus brings food down to the stomach.


Food moves down the esophagus towards what?

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.