Hence, it passes down the digestive tract lending bulk to the food mass and thus promoting peristalsis throughout the whole of the digestive tract.
Peristalsis is stimulated by the giving of water and fruit beverages as soon as it is advisable to give anything by mouth.
The meals should be regular and an abundant diet advised to increase the flow of bile and stimulate peristalsis in the intestines.
Peristalsis must not be allowed to become sluggish, for it is only during the process of digestion when the food mass passes along the intestinal canal that there is an ejection of bile into the intestines.
Between the normal condition of the mucous membrane, with its recurring periods of physiological hyperaemia, and the hyperaemia with exaggerated secretion and peristalsis which leads to diarrhoea, there is no well-defined border-line.
It is considered especially useful when there is constipation, the slightly irritant properties of the bran aiding in maintaining a proper peristalsis and action of the bowels.
One stool daily shows that there is no exaggerated peristalsis which hurries the food along so rapidly that water cannot be absorbed.
At the same time, broken doses, twenty grains, of sulphate of magnesia may be administered every hour or two, not so much for the purpose of exciting additional peristalsis as of turning water into the intestinal canal from above.
The restraint caused by gastric ulcer and gastric catarrh in the normal movements of the stomach may diminish by reflex action the peristalsis of the intestines (Traube and Radziejewski).
Besides the mucus, pus, and blood, the dysenteric stools contain the sloughs which have been torn off by violent peristalsis in cases of the diphtheritic form.
The increased peristalsis of the bowels and the reflex contractions of the gall-bladder dislodge the mucus lining and obstructing the gall-ducts.
In contraction the powerful, writhing peristalsis involves the small intestine above the impediment, and in stricture the large bowel above the obstruction.
By pressure or by passing the hand across the abdomen gastric peristalsis may sometimes be excited.
But when excessive peristalsis occurs, neither absorption nor elimination will be normal or suited to the requirements of the system.
Lukewarm water seems to excite an upward peristalsis of the intestines and thus produces sickness.
It is on this roughage or waste material that intestinal movement or peristalsis depends.
Kronecker, by isolating a loop of intestine in which a metal ball was placed, showed that it was possible to modify peristalsis very materially by affecting the psychic condition of the animal.
But it must not be forgotten that nervousness alone, without any additional factor, may produce a disturbance of the functions of the intestines, and may even increase peristalsis and bring about severe diarrhea.
Another food material that is a valuable aid to nature for the stimulation of peristalsis is sugar.
Bread used to be made of the whole wheat, and of rather coarse flour, leaving a large residue for peristalsis to exercise itself on.
But the continuance of such treatment may seriously disturb peristalsis so that it is important to have intervals of rest for the bowels, during which, while there is a regular daily evacuation, there are no tendencies to diarrhea.
In stout people, the presence of fat in the abdominal wall seems to weaken the muscles so that the intestines are not compressed as they should be in ordinary conditions, and peristalsis seems to be thus interfered with.
This mucus is secreted in large quantities, while at the same time a hyperemia of the colon tends to interfere with peristalsis and consequently to delay the passage of contents and to keep the mucus in place.
The cause of it seems to be due to a disturbance of peristalsis in the line of inhibition because of the vibration and jolting of the train.
An interesting phase of the neurotic or mechanical disturbance of peristalsis is found in the interference with regular movements of the bowels when persons are aboard trains for long distances, or for more than twenty-four hours.
Peristalsis has, therefore, to overcome the sluggish movement of the excrementitious material, which usually does not contain as much liquid as would make its movement easy and normal.
The skins or peeling should be eaten in order to balance the diet as to cellulose, which is a most important article in the excitation of peristalsis of both the stomach and the intestines.
In this stage the peristalsis of the gullet is sufficient to force the food through the cardia.
They make the colon's wall rigid and interfere with peristalsis thus leading to further problems with constipation, and interfere with adsorption of nutrients.
You will also become aware of peristalsis as the water is evacuated vigorously and discover that sensations from a colon hard at work, though a bit uncomfortable, are not necessarily pain.
The result is a great increase in muscle tone, acceleration of peristalsis and eventually, after several dozens of repetitions, a considerable reduction of transit time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peristalsis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
