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Definition of Anastalsis
1. Noun. Muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anastalsis
Literary usage of Anastalsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"This anastalsis is excited by the pushing of fresh material from the ileum into
the cecum and ascending colon; at such times, the tonic constriction ring of ..."
2. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1913)
"The evidence of anastalsis in the human proximal cecum is purely inferential,
and has been derived from a study of cases of fecal fistula. ..."
3. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, and pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"253, has demonstrated by the Rontgen rays that antiperistaltic movements or
anastalsis, a movement of waves backward toward the cecum, occur normally in the ..."
4. Diseases of the digestive organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"The tonic ring in the movements of the intestine is of primary importance in the
study of anastalsis. In a state of tonus and a locally increased tonic ..."
5. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Robert E. Hermann, Avram M. Cooperman (1921)
"... a change in chemical reaction: maximum bacterial flora, maximum fluidity,
anastalsis, predominant lymph tissue, and a point of natural or normal stasis. ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Such a reversal would probably give rise to the anastalsis which is seen sometimes
with the roentgen rays. A number of surgeons have commented on the fact ..."
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