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The pharynx serves as a passageway for both food and air.
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What organ is at the back of the mouth that can both air and water pass through?
The Pharynx is the organ found at the back of the mouth that food, water, and air can all pass through.
What is the organ at the back of the mouth that allows passage of food and air?
Organ at back of the mouth where food and air may pass.
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 are the three main divisions of the larynx?
From superior to inferior: 1. Nasopharynx- air passageway only 2. Oropharynx- swallowed food and air pass through 3. Laryngopharynx- food and air pass through
What Organ of respiratory system is also a passageway for food?
Pharynx-Air and food pass through the pharynx or throat on their way to the lungs and stomach, respectively. Two small masses of lymphatic tissue called tonsils are embedded in the mucous membrane of the pharynx.
What organ Carries food and air?
The pharynx, or throat, carries both food an air. At its end, air goes into the trachea and food into the esophagus.
Can light pass through air?
Yes light can pass through air because when light bounces off mirrors in the process passes through air.
Is the pharynx part of the immune system?
no, it is part of both the respiratory and digestive system, it is the passage through which both air and food pass before separating into the esophagus for food or the trachea for air
When air pass through your trachea it forces air into?
pharynx
Can air pass through water?
i believe the answer is NO
What take air into your body?
The lungs are the organ that takes air into the body. The air is taken in through the nose and the mouth.
What is the breathing organ of cockroach?
They respire through spiracles.
