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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 is the tube that carries air and food into the body?
The pharynx, it serves as a passageway for both air and food.
Do food travel through the pharynx?
The larynx is only the passageway for air, as it is covered by the epiglottis to prevent food from entering it during swallowing. The pharynx, however, serves as a passageway for both food and air.
What structure serves as Passageway for both air and food?
Pharynx.
Which organ does food and air pass through?
The pharynx serves as a passageway for both food and air.
What structure serve as a passageway for both air and food?
Your Pharynx
Passageway for both food and air from nose to esophagus?
Pharynx I believe
Provides a common passageway for both food and air?
Mouth or esophagus
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.
What is the function of a human's pharynx?
The pharynx is a muscular tube which serves as a passageway for both food and air.
What is the food passageway posterior to the larynx?
The esophagus is the food passageway posterior to the larynx.
Why can food or liquid in the mouth be expelled from the nostrils if the mouth is closed when the person laughs?
When a person laughs while eating, there can be a forceful expulsion of air from the lungs which can push food or liquid out through the nostrils. This can happen because the soft palate, which normally closes off the nasal passage from the mouth during swallowing, is briefly disrupted during the laughing reflex. This can allow food or liquid to enter the nasal cavity and then be expelled through the nostrils.
