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The pharynx although its broken into the nasopharynx, the oropharynx and the laryngopharynx.
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Where is you're esophagus?
The esophagus is located just behind the trachea (windpipe), in the neck. It's at the end of your oral cavity down your neck and to your stomach. It is the muscular tube that links the mouth to the stomach. You cannot feel your esophagus in your throat because the trachea is in front of it.
What does the esophagus and epiglottis do?
Once you push food to the back of your through to swallow it, the esophagus pushes it down to your stomach. As food goes from your mouth to your esophagus, it passes over top of the epiglottis, which shuts like a lid to keep stuff from falling down your trachea (windpipe).
In which body part would you find cells with hair-like structure?
mouth
What moves food from the mouth by muscular waves?
peristalsis.... the reason why food travels through the esophagus into the stomach is that it is moved along by contractions of smooth muscle surrounding the esophagus. This is known as peristalsis
Why is the structure of a DNA molecule described as a twisted zipper?
because the shape is a double helix. so it looks like a zipper and connects to each other.
Where is you're esophagus?
The esophagus is located just behind the trachea (windpipe), in the neck. It's at the end of your oral cavity down your neck and to your stomach. It is the muscular tube that links the mouth to the stomach. You cannot feel your esophagus in your throat because the trachea is in front of it.
Where is the esophogus?
The esophagus is a tube-like organ that runs from the throat down to the stomach. The esophagus allows food to travel from the throat to the stomach via a muscle movement called, 'Peristalsis.'
Which 2 channels cross in the pharynx?
The esophagus and the larynx are the two channels that originate in the pharynx. The larynx connects to the wind pipe (trachea) and the esophagus connects to the stomach via of the cardiac valve. The epiglottis is a small flap-like structure that protects the larynx (your ability to breathe) when you swallow/eat/drink.
The esophagus leads into the stomach.?
Things transfer from your esophagus to your stomach through the cardiac sphincter
What are esophageal pouches?
Esophageal pouches, also known as esophageal diverticula, are pocket-like structures formed when the interior space of the esophagus, the tube that connects the mouth to the stomach, protrudes into the walls that surround it.
A part of the digestive system between the mouth and the stomach?
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What is the description of the esophagus?
The esophagus is the tube-like structure that joins the throat to the stomach. The esophagus, which is positioned behind the trachea, is about eight inches in length.
What is the esophagus like?
It is a hollow tube like structure.It takes food from mouth to stomach.
What organs are involved in the gastrointestinal tract?
Digestion starts in the mouth and continues in the stomach. The small intestine completes the digestion process.
2 branches of the windpipe?
The windpipe, or the trachea, is a tube-like portion of the respiratory (breathing) tract that connects the larynx (the voicebox) with the bronchial parts of the lungs. The esophagus is the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach. It lays just behind the trachea and the larynx.
What is the structure and function of the esophagus?
It looks like a giant tube. It helps food go down to your stomach.
What is the order of a frogs digestive system?
Mouth--> Pharynx--> esophagus--> stomach--> small intestine--> large intestine -->cloaca
