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English
Etymology
From anti- + peristalsis.
Noun
antiperistalsis (usually uncountable, plural antiperistalses)
- (physiology) reversed peristalsis
- (physiology) peristalsis occurring in the opposite direction of the way it typically occurs
Translations
peristalsis in the opposite direction