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Yes, but when you swallow the tube closes to allow you to do this action.
Yes. A quick You-Tube search will yield definitive video evidence.
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.
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.
esophagus....
esophagus is the tube that carries food into your stomach after you swallow it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The name of the tube that food goes down when you swallow is called your esophagus.
Food goes from your mouth to the pharynx and then the esophagus which will lead to the stomach.