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Abstract
A pattern of gastrointestinal muscle contraction and depolarizing myoelectric activity that moves from the stomach to the ILEOCECAL VALVE at regular frequency during the interdigestive period. The complex and its accompanying motor activity periodically cleanse the bowel of interdigestive secretion and debris in preparation for the next meal.
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- Complexes, Migrating Motor
- Complexes, Migrating Myoelectric
- Migrating Motor Complex
- Myoelectric Complex, Migrating
- Complex, Migrating Motor
- Complex, Migrating Myoelectric
- Migrating Motor Complexes
- Migrating Myoelectric Complexes
- Motor Complex, Migrating
- Motor Complexes, Migrating
- Myoelectric Complexes, Migrating
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Indexed with the subheadings drug effects, ethics, genetics, immunology, physiology, radiation effects.
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- Gastrointestinal Motility (1977-1990)
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- National Library of Medicine. Migrating Myoelectric Complex. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016065. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016065
- Migrating Myoelectric Complex. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70709021