Other lifestyle changes can also reduce your risk of hardening of the arteries: 1  Avoid fatty foods. 2  Eat well-balanced meals that are low in fat and cholesterol. 3  Include several daily servings of fruits and vegetables. 4  Adding fish to your diet at least twice a week may be helpful. 5  However, do not eat fried fish.
Commotio cordis. Commotio cordis (Latin, agitation of the heart) is an often lethal disruption of heart rhythm that occurs as a result of a blow to the area directly over the heart (the precordial region), at a critical time during the cycle of a heart beat causing cardiac arrest.
Noun. 1. peristalsis-the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along. vermiculation.bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity-an organic process that takes place in the body; respiratory activity.eristalsis. n, pl-ses (-siËz). 1. (Physiology) physiol the succession of waves of involuntary muscular contraction of various bodily tubes, esp of the alimentary tract, where it effects transport of food and waste products. [C19: from New Latin, from peri- + Greek stalsis compression, from stellein to press together].