Science -- Ch.11 -- Digestive System

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What are the squeezing movements made by the esophagus muscles as food moves to the stomach?

peristalsis

What is the liquidlike mixture of food formed when the juices in the stomach break down swallowed food?

chyme

What is the name of the flap of tissue that closes to keep food out of the trachea?

epiglottis

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