The Peristaltic action of the esophagus carries the irritant along quickly, but here it remains quiet in contact with one surface, destroying it.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Nobody could stop the Peristaltic motion of the digestive system, voluntarily or otherwise, or of the lungs in trying to breathe.
"Tangle Hold"
F. L. Wallace
The simpler laws into which the complex law is here resolved, are the second of the two foregoing principles combined with a third, namely that the Peristaltic contraction acts easily upon substances in a state of solution.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill