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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.
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What is the tube that carries air and food into the body?
The pharynx, it serves as a passageway for both air and food.
Passageway for food that is behind the trachea?
The passageway for food that is behind the trachea is the esophagus. After swallowing, food travels down the esophagus to reach the stomach for digestion, while air goes down the trachea to enter the lungs for respiration.
Which part of the pharynx is not involved with food transport?
The nasopharynx is not directly involved in food transport. It serves as a passageway for air from the nasal cavity to the rest of the respiratory system.
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 tha function of the pharynx?
It has both respiratory and digestive functions, serving as a common passageway for air, food and drink.The mouth leads into the oropharynx. The mucous lining the walls of the oropharynx change slightly to adapt for handling food as well as air. It is here that the two tonsils are located. One is at the entrance from the mouth into the oropharynx, and the other is somewhat deeper.
What is the food passageway posterior to the larynx?
The esophagus is the food passageway posterior to the larynx.
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.
The food passageway from the mouth to the stomach is called what?
esophagus
Passageway of food from pharynx to stomach?
esophageal hiatus or esophagus
What structure serves as Passageway for both air and food?
Pharynx.
What is the tube that carries air and food into the body?
The pharynx, it serves as a passageway for both air and food.
Passageway for both food and air from nose to esophagus?
Pharynx I believe
What is the Medical term meaning food passageway that is posterior to the trachea?
The esophagus.
Provides a common passageway for both food and air?
Mouth or esophagus
What structure serve as a passageway for both air and food?
Your Pharynx
Which organ does food and air pass through?
The pharynx serves as a passageway for both food and air.
True or false the esophagus is a food passageway between the stomach and mouth?
yess
