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Is it possible to swallow a sword and live?
Yes. A quick You-Tube search will yield definitive video evidence.
Is it possible to swallow while upside down?
Yes. It's slightly more difficult because you're working against gravity, though. The oesophagus is a tube-like organ, and the act of swallowing squeezes the food through the tube to down to the stomach, or sideways, or up as the case may be.
What is enteral feeding?
Enteral feeding is used to feed patients who can't feed themselves or swallow. A nasogastric tube (tube passed through the nose and down to the throat and to the stomach) allows food to be put into a person without having them swallow.
The trap door that moves to cover your trachea when you swallow so you dont swallow food into your breathing tube?
esophagus....
What is esophaqus?
esophagus is the tube that carries food into your stomach after you swallow it.
Is it possible to breath and swallow at the same time?
Yes. If you would like the food to go down your air tube...get stuck...can't breathe and choke...then yes, yes it is.
What does Petey eat in the book Petey by Ben Mikaelsen?
In the book "Petey" by Ben Mikaelsen, Petey eats mostly through a tube since he is unable to swallow due to cerebral palsy. He is fed a liquid diet that is given to him through the tube.
What does phag mean?
It is a root meaning to swallow or eat. Phagocytes are cells that consume invaders, and the esophagus is the food tube which is connected to where you swallow.
How is the test done is it just x ray machine or do you have to swallow a tube to look down throat and stomach?
Basically,there is no exams have to swallow tube in x-ray field, but as for internal medicine such as colonoscopy,endoscopy for stomach and ERCP for gall bladder has to use long tube with the camera which is located on the end of the tube.
What is the name of the tube food goes down when you swallowed?
The name of the tube that food goes down when you swallow is called your esophagus.
What is orogastric tube?
something's like a tube which is inserted to the mouth then passes on through oesophagus till reaches the stomach, this tube is indicated for a neonatal who doesn't have a reflex of breast-feeding to its mother,it is indicated too for another case which the patient is contraindicated for using a nasogastric tube because of the facial trauma.
What is the tube which you swallow into?
Food goes from your mouth to the pharynx and then the esophagus which will lead to the stomach.
