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Cannon's waves
Associated persons:
Walter Bradford Cannon
Description:
In 1897 Cannon noticed that when his experimental animals were frightened or in some other way disturbed, peristaltic waves in the stomach sometimes ceased abruptly.
Bibliography:
- W. B. Cannon:
The mechanical factors of digestion. London, E. Arnold, 1911.
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