Trachea

There are two pipes, the windpipe (trachea) and the esophagus. When you eat food, a little flap (the epiglottis) goes over the windpipe to stop you getting food into your lungs. That's why when you try to eat with your mouth full you often choke. (You're trying to breathe and eat at the same time!)

No, the wind pipe goes down into the lungs and you breath through it. the oesophagus goes into your stomach and the food goes down it. it is basically like your food pipe

There is a structure located in your throat called the epiglottis. Every time you swallow the epiglottis folds down to a more horizontal position. In this manner it prevents food from going into the trachea and instead directs it to the esophagus, which is more posterior, thus it covers your wind pipe so it doesn't go down the wrong way! Things can interrupt this process, for example talking while eating. That's why your parent's always told you not to talk and eat at the same time!

Yes.

Endotracheal is the medical term meaning within the trachea. For instance, some medications may be given via endotracheal route.

First: it is the "trunk" where air passes through to your bronchus and into your lungs (alveolar duct, alveolar sac, alveolus).

Second: the trachea are made up of C-shaped rings of tough flexible cartilage. These rings of cartilage protect the trachea, make it flexible, and keep it from collapsing or over-expanding.

Third: is the target for tracheal intubation, a medical procedure, for the critically injured. Allowing a medical provider to secure an open airway. Mainly because the trachea leads straight into the lungs.

Forth: Because the trachea is mainly flexible it allows the oesophagus (which is attached to the back of the trachea) to expand when a bolus of food is swallowed.

Fifth: The epidermal cells lining the trachea produce mucus which helps to capture things still in the air (fine dust and microbes). This is swept out of the air passageway by tiny ciliary cells, into the throat, where it is swallowed.

Epiglottis

Cilia are like little hairs. They help to collect things that should not be in the lungs. They may catch some bacteria and send it elsewhere to be fought off with white blood cells. Your nose has cilia to prevent most germs from entering the body. It is just another precation the body takes so it does not have to work as hard to defend itself later.

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yes

Tracheorrhagia is bleeding from the trachea. Tracheitis is inflammation of the trachea.

It is the epiglottis.

* Cook Blue Rhino single dilator kit * video bronchoscopy * Intubation Roll * Cricoid Hook * tracheostomy set

The right and left main bronchus (which supply air to the right and left lung).

The trachea, or windpipe, is a tube that connects the pharynx or larynx to the lungs, allowing the passage of air.

Because there is a flap in your throat that covers the appropriate passage at the appropriate time.

Ex: When you are eating, the flap usually covers the trachea.

However, if you are laughing while eating, the flap can get very confused and may cover the esophagus instead of the trachea, allowing food to go down it.

I hope this helped~

respiration

cartilage rings

Beating ciliated epithelial cells

The lungs rely totally on positive pressurized steady airflow and high dynamic air pressure values of sucked in inspired air to inflate them, the air must be very humid and warm - or the fine narrow tubes (the bronchioles and the alveoli) might not get inflated properly, or not get inflated at all at the most remote ends of the lungs. If proper lung inflation is denied chronically - this can result after some years into a life threatening lung disease called Emphysema. Humidification is also crucial for sustaining the integrity and survival of the cilia blanket's hairy layer, which covers the entire respiratory tracts, including the nose.

Yes. It also prevents liquids from entering the trachea when one swallows.

trachea has cartilage rings which it open all the time