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The chewed up lump of food is known as a bolus.
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What is the function of the flap of skin called the epiglottis between the trachea and the esophagus?
To keep food from going into the lungs.
Is the esophagus is involved in chemical digestion?
The esophagus has a physical break down. The esophagus squeezes the food down into the stomach, making this a physical break down.
What happens in pharynx?
The muscles in the esophagus move the food down into the stomach.
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).
Food reaches the stomach by going down the?
Food reaches to the stomach by going down the esophagus.
What is the esophgus?
an esophagus keeps food from going down your airway.
What is the name of the pipe that food goe down after you swallow it?
The name of the tube that food goes down when you swallow is called your esophagus.
What happens to food when it goes down the esophagus?
the food is then forced down the esophagus.
What is peristaltic movement and how does it function in the esophagus?
The peristaltic movements are muscle contractions and its function on the esophagus is to push food down into the stomach and prevent it from going back into the esophagus.
What is the name of the tube food goes down when you swallowed?
The name of the tube that food goes down when you swallow is called your esophagus.
What is the muscle action that pushes food down the esophagus and through the intestines called?
It is called deglutition.
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).
Tube carrying food from the mouth to he stomach?
The digestive system the esophagus. Food goes from your mouth and goes down your esophagus then to the stomach blood goes around the food and the liver takes what the blood absorbed down
What goes through your esophagus?
The food that that you chew is what goes down your esophagus.
Which tube does food go down from?
Food goes down the esophagus.
What is the function of the flap of skin called the epiglottis between the trachea and the esophagus?
To keep food from going into the lungs.
