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What prevents food from getting into the lungs is an Aorta.
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What prevents food or liquids from getting into lungs?
What prevents food from getting into the lungs is an Aorta.
What prevents food or liquids from getting to the lungs?
Epiglottis
Does pharynx prevent food or liquids from getting into the lungs?
nope.. the trachea
What prevents getting food or liquid into the lungs?
What prevents food from getting into the lungs is an Aorta.
What prevents food and liquid from being inhaled when a person swallows?
The Epiglottis is what prevents food and liquids from being inhaled.
What is the function of the epilottis during the digestive process?
Prevents food and water entering the lungs
What prevents food from getting to lungs?
Food can be prevented from entering the larynx if a person has issues with eating, or if their esophagus is giving them problems. Large food pieces can cause this as well.
If both food and air enters your mout what keeps your lungs functioning?
whats prevents food from going down your lungs
Why do you cough when a piece of food goes the wrong way?
That is called the 'Gag Reflex'. The reflex prevents any liquid or solid food from getting into the lungs by going down the wrong (the Esophagus and not the Trachea).
Can you live with out your epiglottis very long?
When you swallow, the epiglottis shifts position, so that food goes into your stomach, and not to your lungs. Without it, there is a very high danger of getting food or liquids in your lungs. This would be considered life threatening in a short (hours) time, and require immediate medical care.
Does lungs absorb food and liquid that goes down into lungs?
No. Food and liquids should not go down into the lungs. That is why one coughs excessively when food or liquid "goes down the wrong tube." Aspiration is the term for breathing food or liquid into the lungs, and frequently causes a severe pneumonitis and may result in pneumonia.
What does your epilottis do?
it protects your lungs from getting food or water in them
