no
esophagus....
esophagus is the tube that carries food into your stomach after you swallow it.
It is a root meaning to swallow or eat. Phagocytes are cells that consume invaders, and the esophagus is the food tube which is connected to where you swallow.
Basically,there is no exams have to swallow tube in x-ray field, but as for internal medicine such as colonoscopy,endoscopy for stomach and ERCP for gall bladder has to use long tube with the camera which is located on the end of the tube.
The name of the tube that food goes down when you swallow is called your esophagus.
The name of the tube that food goes down when you swallow is called your esophagus.
Nurses and doctors use a suction tube to remove saliva from a patient's mouth when the patient is unable to swallow. However it is not simply a tube, but a tube connected to a suction machine.
A feeding tube is inserted when a patient or person is no longer able to swallow or chew their own food when they need to eat.
Enteral feeding is used to feed patients who can't feed themselves or swallow. A nasogastric tube (tube passed through the nose and down to the throat and to the stomach) allows food to be put into a person without having them swallow.
Yes. A quick You-Tube search will yield definitive video evidence.
No, humans have two separate tubes for breathing and swallowing. The trachea carries air to and from the lungs, while the esophagus carries food and liquids to the stomach. These two tubes are completely separate and do not overlap.