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What is the lid of the lower respiratory tract?
The lid of the lower respiratory tract is the epiglottis. It is a flap of cartilage that covers the entrance to the larynx during swallowing to prevent food or liquids from entering the airway.
What if your epiglottis does not open?
Food would get into your trachea (air pipe).
What covers the esophagus?
The epiglottis covers the esophagus. The epiglottis is a small flap that covers the epiglottis when breathing and covers the trachea, or windpipe, when you are eating to prevent food from entering the lungs.
What is the involuntary reflex during swallowing?
the tongue rolling the bolus into the pharynx
How is food and drink prevented from entering the respiratory passageways during swallowing?
Good question! The respiratory tube is placed in front of the food tube. The food should normally enter the respiratory passage. That would have disastrous results. But the same is protected by the flap called as epiglottis. This stands upright normally, when you breath. It closes temporarily the opening of the respiratory passage, when you are swallowing the food bolus. The food you swallow is either liquid or made into bolus by the saliva. You can not swallow the powder. It may enter the respiratory tract. This is one of the beautiful mechanism. You have thousands of such designs in your body. I believe that such designs are possible for God only.
In frogs what is the path of food through the respiratory system?
In no animal does food pass thought the respiratory system. The respiratory system is used for breathing (gas exchange) not food. The Alimentary Canal or gastrointestinal tract is what is employed for the digestion of food.
Part of the food tube where the GI tract and the respiratory tract cross each other?
The part of the food tube where the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and the respiratory tract cross each other is called the pharynx. This is a crucial junction where the passages for food and air intersect before they continue on to the esophagus and the trachea, respectively.
What is the lid of the lower respiratory tract?
The lid of the lower respiratory tract is the epiglottis. It is a flap of cartilage that covers the entrance to the larynx during swallowing to prevent food or liquids from entering the airway.
What if your epiglottis does not open?
Food would get into your trachea (air pipe).
What happen in deglutition?
Your epiglottis come down to close the respiratory tract. The food bolus is pushed back to enter the oesophagus.
How does respiratory system helps in digestion?
Food is separated into usable nutrients and waste, which is excreted.
What are the nutrients that moves through the digestive tract?
Fiber is the nutrient that helps move food through the digestive tract. It provides bulk, which activates the stretch receptors in the muscles of the digestive tract, stimulating them to activity.
What covers the esophagus?
The epiglottis covers the esophagus. The epiglottis is a small flap that covers the epiglottis when breathing and covers the trachea, or windpipe, when you are eating to prevent food from entering the lungs.
What is the main job of the undigested food?
Fiber, which is not digested, serves to stimulate peristalsis and helps to move the food through the gastro-intestinal tract.
What is the involuntary reflex during swallowing?
the tongue rolling the bolus into the pharynx
How is food and drink prevented from entering the respiratory passageways during swallowing?
Good question! The respiratory tube is placed in front of the food tube. The food should normally enter the respiratory passage. That would have disastrous results. But the same is protected by the flap called as epiglottis. This stands upright normally, when you breath. It closes temporarily the opening of the respiratory passage, when you are swallowing the food bolus. The food you swallow is either liquid or made into bolus by the saliva. You can not swallow the powder. It may enter the respiratory tract. This is one of the beautiful mechanism. You have thousands of such designs in your body. I believe that such designs are possible for God only.
What helps the tiger get its food?
thats not a netball question
