How to Use peristalsis in a Sentence

peristalsis

noun

• The top squeezes, then the middle, then the bottom (this process is technically known as peristalsis), and this helps propel food through the organ.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• This motion mimics how our intestines and esophagus move food around our body — a process known as peristalsis.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2018
• Fat innkeepers then use peristalsis to fill their burrows with water so that the mucous can trap the critters, like plankton, and bacteria that the water brings with it.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2019
• In their back-and-forth manner, all technologies have been improving, even if the peristalsis of history is hard to follow.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 14 Dec. 2022
• As in other animals’ digestive systems, food is moved around this eight- (or ten- or 12-) lobed gut by peristalsis, a wavelike motion of the gut walls.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• This routine trains a competitive eater’s body to stop gastric peristalsis when gorging on food.
  — Currie Engel, Time, 4 July 2019
• In fact, while your stomach will typically make writhing motions called peristalsis to move food along to the stomach, the competitive eater’s stomach remained more still.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• In order for your body to propel food through your digestive system, the muscles in your stomach and intestines are constantly contracting to push your food downward in a process called peristalsis .
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 26 Oct. 2017
• In other mammals, the wavelike peristalsis of the intestinal muscles are consistent in all directions.
  — Tess Joosse, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2021
• The nervous-immune connection is intriguing in light of recent research suggesting that chemical cross talk between gut macrophages and nerve fibers can control peristalsis, the process that moves food through the digestive tract.
  — Esther Landhuis, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2020
• Chewing gum can help get your gastrointestinal tract moving by improving peristalsis, the rhythmic muscle contractions of your intestines that push food through your system.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• But peristalsis instead of these rotational forces is gentler, and would allow fuel to be manufactured in one slow, continuous process, rather than in batches.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024