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the eustachian tube
What else can I help you with?
How your Bodies Keep Food From Entering Lungs?
Epligottis Opens A Flap of Tissue and Covers the Lung and makes it go through the Stomach. Your Welcome :3
Can cats get lung worm?
if they have water or food than has been in contact with it then they may get infected
What keeps the lung from fully expanding?
pure air
How does the blood entering the heart from the lung differ from the blood entering the heart from the blood?
The blood entering from the lungs has a high oxygen content and the blood entering from the body is high in carbon dioxide.
Name two lung defenses prevent debris from entering the body?
mucous membranes, cilia
What keeps the surface between the air and the alveolar cells moist in the lung?
alveolar fluid
Why must you seal an chest wound?
This stops air from entering the chest cavity, and prevents collapsing the lung.
If air enters the intrapleural space?
The lung will collapse (atelectasis) because the negative intrapleural pressure gradient that keeps the lung inflated has is now at equilibrium with atmospheric pressure.
Can food lodged in your lung kill you?
Yes it can
Can there be water in the lung but no water in the stomach for a body found in water?
No
Why seal open chest wound?
Prevent air from entering the potential space in the pariatal lining and collapsing the lung.
How much water does it take to drown?
a teaspoon of water
