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The trap door that moves to cover your trachea when you swallow so you dont swallow food into your breathing tube?
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Does the epiglottis prevent food from entering the windpipe?
Yes epiglottis act as a shield or better to say a door with onesided movement.when we eat something the door(epiglottis) closes the entrance to windpipe or larynx and after the food passes to the food pipe or pharynx it again opens up and allow breathing.
What structure in your thoat closes over your larynx when you swallo?
When you swallow, the larynx moves up slightly, and a flap called the epiglottis closes over the trachea.
How a swallow moves?
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What it trachea?
windpipe; tube through which air moves.
During inhalation air moves from the larynx directly to the what?
Trachea
Why would move downward to close the trachea during swallowing?
The epiglottis moves downards to block the trachea during swallowing.
Air moves from the outside into the lungs through?
The air moves from the outside into the lungs through the windpipe.
Push down on trachea of fetal pig?
there is still air in the trachea. when you push down on the trachea, the air moves from the trachea and into the lungs, thus inflating it. the lings should appear to move up. be a truth seeker
What Air moves through the larynx through the blank and then into the lungs?
Trachea
What cell moves mucus and dust particles out of the trachea?
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How air moves into and out the lungs?
breathing.
Do the air you breath in goes through your trachea?
Air moves from the sinuses into the trachea, the esophagus is part of the digestive tract.
