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What serves as a passage way for both air and food?

the esophagus, of course


What is the passage way of food and air?

pharynx


What is a common passage for food and air in your body?

The tube for both food and air is called the pharynx. The tube for just food is the esophagus, and the tube for just air is the trachea.


What serves as a passage way for food and air?

Esophogus


What can travel through the pharynx?

Air and food can both travel through the pharynx. It serves as a passage for air to reach the lungs through the trachea and for food to reach the esophagus on its way to the stomach.


What is the passage way of the air?

pharynx


Does food pass through the pharynx?

Food does pass through the pharynx before it goes into the esophagus and on to the stomach.


The urethra is a passage way for what three things?

Your urethra is a passage way for both urine and semen.


Function of a pharynx?

It serves as a passage way for food travelling from the oral cavity to the esophagus and for air travelling from the nasal cavity to larynex


The structure that extends from the choanae to the larynx and functions as a passage way for air food and drink but is also important as it resonates sounds produced in the larynx is called what?

Pharynx


What is the food passage way that is posterior to the trachea called?

That would be the esophagus.


The next passage after your nose in the upper respiratory tract is what?

Well, the next region that air passes is consequently the nasal cavity. But beyond that, it flows through the nasal and paranasal sinuses, and eventually makes it way down to the larynx and pharynx.