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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.
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Which structure helps move food to the pharynx?
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
Where is the receptors taste are located at?
Most are located on the dorsal surface of the tongue. A few are found on the soft palate, epiglottis, pharynx, and inner surface of the cheeks.
What is the involuntary reflex during swallowing?
the tongue rolling the bolus into the pharynx
What structure carries both food and air?
The pharynx is the back of the throat (divided loosely into nasopharynx and oropharynx) which allows food to enter the oesophagus and air to enter the thrachea.
What is the common passageway for both respiration and digestion?
the throat. pharynx.
Which of these is a muscle pharynx tongue mucous saliva?
tongue
Forces food into the pharynx?
Tongue
Is the pharynx is ventral to the tongue?
yes
What muscles move food to the pharynx?
the tongue
What forces back food into the pharynx?
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.
What forces food back into into pharynx?
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.
Which structure helps move food to the pharynx?
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
A frog's tongue attaches at the?
Anterior
What forces food back into the pharynx so that it can glide easily down the esophagus?
Your tongue.
A frog's tongue attaches at the what tip?
anaterior
What is the muscle that attaches only at the end?
The Tongue
What forces food into the pharynx?
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
