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The food and beverages that go down the food pipe are prevented from entering the wind pipe with the help of epiglottis. When we swallow, the flap of cartilage shuts down automatically, causing it to reach the digestive system.
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How is food prevented from going down the windpipe?
Food is prevented from going down the winpipe because the epiclottis.
What keeps food from coming down a windpipe?
A small muscle in the back of your throat called the epiglotis.
What keeps food from going down your windpipe?
There are two reasons this doesn't happen. One is that you cannot breate while swallowing, and the other is that the body has an involuntary reflex that prevents it from inhaling food.
Why is the epiglotti an important part of the respiratory system?
prevents food from food going down your windpipe
This flap of tissue helps prevent food from going down your windpipe?
Epiglottis
What doest the epiglottis do?
It is a flap of skin that stops food from going down the windpipe
Flap over the trachea that keeps food from entering your windpipe?
It is the epiglottis.
What keeps food from going down your lungs?
epiglottis
What is the esophgus?
an esophagus keeps food from going down your airway.
What covers the windpipe while you are eating so that food does not go down the windpipe?
Epiglottis...
Where in your body is your epiglottis?
It's the part of your body that flops down over the windpipe when you swallow to keep food from going into your lungs.
What stucture keeps food from going down the wrong pipe?
epiglottis
