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What is the chamber at the back of your mouth and nose leading to esophagus and larynx called?
The chamber at the back of your mouth and nose leading to the esophagus and larynx is called the pharynx. It serves as a passageway for both food and air to travel through to reach their respective destinations in the body.
The esophagus and trachea branch off of the?
The esophagus and trachea both branch off of the pharynx, which is the common pathway for air and food. The esophagus carries food from the mouth to the stomach, while the trachea carries air from the mouth and nose to the lungs.
What is the pharynx also known as?
The pharynx is also known as the throat. It is a muscular tube that connects the nose and mouth to the esophagus and larynx.
The esophagus and trachea are both open to the?
The esophagus and trachea open into the throat and mouth.
Passageway for air from the environment into the respiratory system?
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What is the purposes of the pharynx?
The pharynx is the scientific term for the throat. The pharynx is a passageway from the mouth and nose to the esophagus and larynx.
What is the chamber at the back of your mouth and nose leading to esophagus and larynx called?
The chamber at the back of your mouth and nose leading to the esophagus and larynx is called the pharynx. It serves as a passageway for both food and air to travel through to reach their respective destinations in the body.
Passageway for both food and air from nose to esophagus?
Pharynx I believe
What is the conduit for both air and food?
The pharynx is the conduit for both air and food. It serves as a passageway for air from the nose or mouth to the trachea for respiration, and for food from the mouth to the esophagus for digestion.
The pharynx connects what two organs?
The Esophagus is the food tube that passes a chewed food and saliva packet called a bolus, from the mouth down to the stomach. The trachea is the passageway from the mouth to the lungs. Your trachea allows you to breath air in. Google image search should give you some anatomy pictures.
What passageway does air go through after nose?
esophagus cha cha agian!
Does the trachea connect the mouth and nose 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.
The esophagus and trachea branch off of the?
The esophagus and trachea both branch off of the pharynx, which is the common pathway for air and food. The esophagus carries food from the mouth to the stomach, while the trachea carries air from the mouth and nose to the lungs.
What is the pharynx also known as?
The pharynx is also known as the throat. It is a muscular tube that connects the nose and mouth to the esophagus and larynx.
Are there hairs inside esophagus?
No. There are only hairs inside of the nose, which serve to clean the air that you inhale - breathing through your nose is better for you because the air is cleaned - dirt is trapped in the mucous and hair in your nose. If you breathe through your mouth, there is very little to clean the air.
Where does your nose and mouth lead to?
It leads to your throat then down to the esophagus. Finally, your stomach.
Where is the nasopharynx?
The nasopharynx is the space above the soft palate at the back of thethe nose and connects the nose to the mouth,
