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Yes. Ventral can mean closer to the abdomen, below or the bottom surface of an object such as ventral surface of the tongue (bottom side).
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The tongue is the muscle that forces food into the pharynx. When you chew and then swallow, it is the back of your tongue that forces the food back and down your throat.
The tongue is the muscle that forces food into the pharynx. When you chew and then swallow, it is the back of your tongue that forces the food back and down your throat.
There are two types of muscles associated with the tongue, the intrinsic and the extrinsic. The extrinsic muscles attach the tongue to the skull and anchor it to the throat.
Your tongue.
It is initiated by the voluntary phase of swallowing (deglutition). This is where the food is squeezed or rolled into the pharynx by pressure of the tongue upward and backward against the palate
The pharynx in a planarian is located on the ventral side of the body, towards the front end. It is a muscular tube-like structure that extends out of the body to help the planarian feed on prey.
The pharynx is the area immediately behind the mouth and nasal cavity before the oesophagus. The tongue is used to push the food towards the back of the throat to initiate the swallowing reflex. Swallowing reflex is initiated by touch receptors in the pharynx as a bolus of food is pushed to the back of the mouth by the tongue. Tongue
The tongue pushes food to the back of the mouth.