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24 Αυγ 2023 · Your pharynx (throat) is a multitasking muscular funnel that helps you breathe and directs food and liquid to your digestive system. You can keep your pharynx healthy by quitting smoking and protecting yourself from infections.
30 Οκτ 2023 · The main function of the respiratory system is pulmonary ventilation, which is the movement of air between the atmosphere and the lung by inspiration and expiration driven by the respiratory muscles. The respiratory system works as a whole to extract the oxygen from the inhaled air and eliminate the carbon dioxide from the body by exhalation.
22 Οκτ 2024 · Human respiratory system - Pharynx, Airways, Lungs: For the anatomical description, the pharynx can be divided into three floors. The upper floor, the nasopharynx, is primarily a passageway for air and secretions from the nose to the oral pharynx.
Its function is to regulate the passage of air to the lungs and food to the esophagus. Two small tubes (eustachian tubes) connect the middle ears to the pharynx and allow air pressure on the eardrum to be equalized. Head colds sometimes inflame the tubes, causing earaches and hearing difficulties.
As a component of the upper respiratory tract, the pharynx is part of the conducting zone for air into the lungs. Therefore, one of its primary functions is to warm and humidify air before it reaches the lungs.
8 Δεκ 2017 · The pharynx’s respiratory role is mainly to allow inhaled air entering the nasal cavity to make its way to the respiratory tract – which includes the larynx, the trachea or “windpipe” and finally the lungs’ bronchioles and alveoli where respiration takes place.
23 Αυγ 2024 · The pharynx, or throat, plays a key role in serving both your respiratory and digestive systems. Its structures allow air to pass through your windpipe and on to your lungs, while also working to ensure food and drink pass into the esophagus and stomach.
