Q.Fill in the blank: Food reaches to stomach from oesophagus by ______ movement.

Food is pushed from the oesophagus to the stomach by peristaltic (peristalsis) movement.

The wall of the oesophagus (and the rest of the gut) has layers of smooth muscle. When a bolus of food enters, the muscle just behind it contracts and the muscle ahead relaxes. This produces a travelling wave of contraction called peristalsis that squeezes the foo …