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What structure serves as Passageway for both air and food?
Pharynx.
What Passageway shared by food?
The passageway shared by food is the pharynx. It serves as a common channel for both the digestive and respiratory systems, allowing food to pass from the mouth to the esophagus while also facilitating airflow to the larynx and trachea. This anatomical structure plays a crucial role in swallowing, ensuring that food is directed properly into the esophagus and not into the windpipe.
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 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.
Which organ does food and air pass through?
The pharynx serves as a passageway for both food and air.
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 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 food passageway posterior to the larynx?
The esophagus is the food passageway posterior to the larynx.
What structure carries both food and air?
The pharynx carries both food and air. It is a passageway at the back of the oral and nasal cavities that leads to the esophagus (for food) and the trachea (for air).
What is the role of pharynx in digestion?
The pharynx acts as a passageway for both air and food. (Plays a very key role in the digestive system)
