• Question: what do you know about the epiglottis?

    Asked by Lo-Bo Cookie to Theresia, Katie on 18 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Theresia Mina

      Theresia Mina answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Hi Lo-Bo Cookie, epiglottis helps us to prevent food from going to the breathing passage 🙂

    • Photo: Katie Pickering

      Katie Pickering answered on 21 Nov 2014:

      Hi,

      As theresia says here it is a vlavle that prevents food and other particles going into the lungs and guides it down the alimentary canal.

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