English
Noun
peristalsis (plural peristalses)
- (medicine) The rhythmic, wave-like contraction of the digestive tract that forces food through it.
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Translations
rhythmic contraction of the digestive tract
- Armenian: գալարակծկանք (hy) (galarakckankʿ), պերիստալտիկա (peristaltika)
- Belarusian: перыстальтыка f (pjerystalʹtyka)
- Bulgarian: перисталтика (bg) (peristaltika)
- Danish: peristaltik
- Finnish: peristaltiikka (fi)
- French: péristaltisme (fr) m
- German: Peristaltik f
- Greek: περίσταλσις (perístalsis)
- Hindi: क्रमाकुंचन (kramākuncan)
- Italian: peristalsi (it)
- Japanese: 蠕動 (ぜんどう, sendou)
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- Marathi: आंत्रचलन (āntracalan)
- Polish: perystaltyka (pl) f
- Portuguese: peristaltismo (pt) m, peristalse f
- Romanian: peristaltică (ro) f, peristaltism (ro) n
- Russian: периста́льтика (ru) f (peristálʹtika)
- Spanish: peristalsis (es) f
- Swedish: peristaltik (sv) c
- Tamil: சுற்றிழுப்பசைவு (cuṟṟiḻuppacaivu), சுற்றிழுப்பசைவு (cuṟṟiḻuppacaivu)
- Turkish: peristalti
- Ukrainian: перистальтика (perystalʹtyka)
- Vietnamese: sự nhu động
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Spanish
Noun
peristalsis f (plural peristalsis)
- peristalsis
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