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How is food and drink prevented from entering the respiratory passageways during swallowing?
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∙ 11y ago
Good question! The respiratory tube is placed in front of the food tube. The food should normally enter the respiratory passage. That would have disastrous results. But the same is protected by the flap called as epiglottis. This stands upright normally, when you breath. It closes temporarily the opening of the respiratory passage, when you are swallowing the food bolus. The food you swallow is either liquid or made into bolus by the saliva. You can not swallow the powder. It may enter the respiratory tract. This is one of the beautiful mechanism. You have thousands of such designs in your body. I believe that such designs are possible for God only.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoAs with many openings leading to the outside of the body, the "tubes" produce mucous which acts as a lubricant. This protects this tube from damage when eating and swallowing.
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∙ 12y agoDuring swallowing muscles of the pharynx and larynx move superiorly and the epiglottis seals off the Larynx from food and liquid during swallowing.
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∙ 11y agoEpiglottis
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What prevents food entering trachea when swallowing?
The epiglottis prevents the food you eat from entering the trachea.
What is the apparatus that closes during swallowing to prevent food from entering the trachea?
epiglottis
Flap of tissue which prevents food the food from entering the windpipe when swallowing?
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Epiglottis
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Can dust be prevented from entering into your house?
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What prevent food from entering the windpipe when swallowing?
Epiglottis
During swallowing food is blocked from entering the trachea by the?
epiglottis
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Food is supposed to enter the oesophagus for it to reach the stomach.If you mean what prevents food from entering the trachea/windpipe, then the epiglottis is a leaf-shaped piece of cartilage that closes over the trachea to prevent food/drink from entering it during swallowing.
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The function of the epiglottis is that it allows air to pass through the larynx and into the rest of the respiratory system. When swallowing food or drink, it covers the entrance to the larynx to prevent food and drink from entering the trachea (windpipe).well basically its right
What prevents food entering trachea when swallowing?
The epiglottis prevents the food you eat from entering the trachea.
What keeps food entering the nasal cavity during swallowing?
jaquasia
What is the apparatus that closes during swallowing to prevent food from entering the trachea?
epiglottis
