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The auditory tube (aka Eustachian tube) opens at one end in the middle ear and the other end in the pharynx (throat). It is important in maintaining the correct air pressure in the middle ear, but it is also the means of bacteria getting up into the middle ear and causing earaches or otitis media.
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What structure serves as Passageway for both air and food?
Pharynx.
Which organ does food and air pass through?
The pharynx serves as a passageway for both food and air.
What is the passageway for food and air?
The Oropharynx is the common passage for food and air. Liquid, food, and air all pass through this passage.
What is the main function of the pharynx?
The main function of the pharynx is to provide a passageway for the respiratory and digestive tracts. The pharynx is also referred to as the throat. It houses the tonsils, the uvula, epiglottis and is the entrance way to the esophagus. The pharynx or throat, allows common passageway for air into your lungs and food into your stomach. The pharynx has two roles. The upper part of the pharynx will only allow food to pass through, and the lower part of the pharynx allows air, fluids, and food to pass through.
What allows air to pass to and from lungs?
your trachea or windpipe
Which is an opaque or nontransparent material that allows air to pass through it?
Cloth allows air transfer through the stitches.
What is tube that provides a passageway for air?
trachea
What is the tube that provides a passageway for air?
trachea
Is air an opaque object?
No, air is not an opaque object. Opaque objects do not allow light to pass through them, but air is transparent and allows light to pass through easily.
What is the material that allows light to pass through it?
Materials like air, water, clear glass etc that allows light pass through them are called transparent.
What is the epliglottis?
A small leaf-like structure that closes the passageway to the larynx to prevent food from entering the larynx and trachea when you swallow. When it is open it allows for the passage of air and sound.
A passageway in your throat that takes air into and out of your lungs?
The trachea.
