Question

name the flap that shuts off the windpipe when we swallow food

Answer 1

epiglottis is the flap that shuts off the windpipe when we swallow food

Answer 2

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The epiglottis is a flap of cartilage that guards the larynx during swallowing. So we see that during the act of swallowing, all undesired routes are blocked off. The tongue blocks the mouth, the soft palate closes off the passage to the nose and a flap called the epiglottis flops over the passage to the lungs


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