"That went fast." "Amazing how a whole baseball season can go by in a heartbeat." "While the games themselves move more like peristalsis." "If you want people to learn new words, don't reward them by grossing them out."
Peristalsis: a radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles which propagates in a wave down a muscular tube, in an anterograde fashion. Peristalsis is often found in the contraction of smooth muscle tissue to propel food/chyme through a digestive tract, such as the human gastrointestinal tract.
Antiperistalsis: contractions of the intestine that force the contents in the opposite direction to the normal
Peristalsis: a radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles which propagates in a wave down a muscular tube, in an anterograde fashion. Peristalsis is often found in the contraction of smooth muscle tissue to propel food/chyme through a digestive tract, such as the human gastrointestinal tract.
Antiperistalsis: contractions of the intestine that force the contents in the opposite direction to the normal