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Is the esophagus the muscular tube through which ingested food passes from the pharynx to the stomach?
The esophagus is the muscular tube that allows for food to go from the mouth to the stomach. The trachea is the cartilagenous tube that allows air to go from the mouth to the lungs.
What is the tough muscular tube?
trachea is the tough muscular tube It is also the wind pipe...
What collects incoming air from the nose and passes it downward to the trachea?
nose to throat to trachea to bonchi to bronchioles to alvelus.
What is an esophagus?
"Erythematous" is red, and "esophagus" is the tube that carries from from your mouth to your stomach.
What are two ways to differentiate between the trachea and esophagus?
First, the trachea is part of the respiratory system while the esophagus is part of the digestive system of human and some of the animals. Second, the trachea is the tube in air-breathing vertibrates that conducts air from the throat to the bronchi. It is commonly called windpipe and is made up of numerous cartilaginous half rings which is adjacent to the esophagus. Lying in front of the esophagus. While esophagus, a mascular tube about 10 inches long passes behind the trachea and the heart. The passage down which food moves between the throat and the stomach. In short, trachea is where the air passes while esophagus is where the food passes.
Passageway for food that is behind the trachea?
The esophagus is the tube from pharynx to stomach.
What is esophageal atresia repair?
a surgical procedure performed to correct congenital defects of the esophagus (the muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach) and the trachea
A 12-cm tube located below the larynx is the?
That tube is the trachea.
Where is your trachea?
Seems like a homework quesiton... The trachea is the cartilagenous tube between the nose/mouth to the lungs. It is at the front of your neck it passes in between the two heads of collar bone.
What is the commonly called the food tube?
it is called the oesophagus and the 'wind pipe' which lies behind it at the opening is called the trachea. regards
What tube connects the mouth to the lungs?
This tube is technically called the trachea, but is commonly referred to as one's windpipe. Be careful not to confuse it with your esophagus, which connects your mouth to your stomach in the digestive system.
What tube carries air to and from the lungs?
the trachea (windpipe)
