peristalsis

wavelike sequence of muscular contraction and relaxation that passes along a tubelike structure
Intangible biological_process Q308695
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peristalsis

Summary

peristalsis is a biological process[1]. peristalsis draws 470 Wikipedia views per month (biological_process category, ranking #48 of 442).[2]

Key Facts

  • peristalsis's instance of is recorded as biological process[3].
  • peristalsis's GND ID is recorded as 4173798-2[4].
  • peristalsis's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85099949[5].
  • peristalsis's subclass of is recorded as phasic smooth muscle contraction[6].
  • peristalsis's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D010528[7].
  • peristalsis's MedlinePlus ID is recorded as 002282[8].
  • peristalsis's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/014m7t[9].
  • peristalsis's MeSH tree code is recorded as G10.261.360.596[10].
  • peristalsis's Gene Ontology ID is recorded as GO:0030432[11].
  • peristalsis's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0131167[12].
  • peristalsis's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0131169[13].
  • peristalsis's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[14].
  • peristalsis's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/peristalsis[15].
  • peristalsis's BBC Things ID is recorded as 21c45539-5675-4c94-9179-48142f81385a[16].
  • peristalsis's NALT ID is recorded as 42436[17].
  • peristalsis's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0030432[18].
  • peristalsis's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0031133[19].
  • peristalsis's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as peristaltisme[20].
  • peristalsis's Quora topic ID is recorded as Peristalsis[21].
  • peristalsis's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as levenswetenschappen-en-geneeskunde/peristaltiek[22].
  • peristalsis's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as peristalsis[23].
  • peristalsis's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 029495[24].
  • peristalsis's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 206813253[25].
  • peristalsis's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007536091005171[26].
  • peristalsis's Lex ID is recorded as peristaltik[27].

Why It Matters

peristalsis draws 470 Wikipedia views per month (biological_process category, ranking #48 of 442).[2] peristalsis has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] peristalsis is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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