No. The windpipe is a thin-walled, cartilaginous tube descending from the larynx to the bronchi and carrying air to the lungs. It is really called the trechea. The esophagus on the other hand goes into your stomach and the food goes down it.
The trachea is the windpipe. When you eat or drink things, it goes into the esophagus.
No, the windpipe is the tube connecting the esophagus (at the larynx) to the lungs, it does not go near the stomach.
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Trachea is located in your thorax or chest. It divides into two branches at the lower border of the fourth thoracic vertebra.
The windpipe (trachea) and vocal cords (larynx) are there.
rubber bander5 i think you're referring to the cartilidge located in that area to provide flexible protection to the throat?
It has the same coloring as the inside of your mouth.
The epiglottis sort of hangs down in the back of the throat and it helps prevent food from entering the trachea when we eat.
Trachea is located in your thorax or chest. It divides into two branches at the lower border of the fourth thoracic vertebra.
The larynx is located in your throat.
at the beginning of the windpipe in the throat.
The windpipe (trachea) and vocal cords (larynx) are there.
In the throat, That's the thing you feel in the front of it.
A tracheotomy is a surgical procedure in which a cut or opening is made in the windpipe (trachea).
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The medical term for the windpipe is trachea.It is called "TRACHEA"tracheaThe tracheaTrachea.tracheaThe "windpipe" is the colloquial term for the trachea, a tube connecting the throat to the lungs.
Goblet cells in the epithelium produce mucus that traps the dust and dirt that is taken into the windpipe through the mouth and nose. The long, finger-like cillia cells then sweep the mucus back up the windpipe to the throat where it can be swallowed and then destroyed in the stomach by the digestive juices and acids.
A small muscle in the back of your throat called the epiglotis.
The cilia cells waft dirt and germs away from the windpipe.
"Throat" is a non-medical synonym for windpipe.