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View Post: About Swallowing Problems
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29 Nov 2009 by admin   ...
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View Post: Alternatives to ultrasound technology
9 Nov 2009 by Laura Spilde  
Because both food and Earth's atmosphere pass through the pharynx, a flap of connective tissue called the epiglottis closes over the trachea when food is swallowed to prevent choking or Pulmonary aspiration.... ; the larynx ...
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View Post: Sleep Apnea
24 Nov 2009
Other symptoms of sleep apnea include choking or gasping during sleep, unrefreshing sleep, morning headaches, daytime fatigue, personality changes, memory impairment, impaired concentration, poor judgment, mood disturbances, ...
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View Post: Morphine and trouble swallowing?
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26 Oct 2009 by admin   ...
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View Post: Is the human pharynx poorly designed?
8 May 2009
The pharynx serves as a single passage for three systems—the respiratory, digestive and communicative—for many very good reasons. A major one is, unlike other primates, our airway and esophagus intersect. This can cause choking, ...
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View Post: B) Human reflexes Investigation 1 Knee jerk: Based on this ...
28 Nov 2009 by Angelina Tan  
... or animal body that makes something pass from the mouth, to the pharynx, into the esophagus, with the shutting of the epiglottis. If this fails and the object goes through the trachea, then choking or pulmonary aspiration can occur. ...
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View Post: The Respiratory System: Tracing the Vital Life Sustaining Process
26 Sep 2009 by freearticle  
... trachea (thus obviating the possibility of choking). Moreover, the cilia cells as well as the mucous membrane of the larynx also filter air. The cilia cells take the airborne substances towards the pharynx where they are swallowed. ...
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View Post: First Aid for Choking
17 Oct 2009 by admin  
Prolonged or complete choking results in asphyxiation which leads to hypoxia and is potentially fatal. Choking can be caused by: Introduction of a foreign object into the airway, which becomes lodged in the pharynx, larynx or trachea. ...
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View Post: Choke Episode Aftermath(kind of long) - EquiSearch Community
20 Nov 2009 by Amber  
An aquaintance of mine owns a TB filly that had a life-threatening battle with choke. They performed an endoscopy on her and discovered that one side of her pharynx? (sp) was parilized(sp?). It sounds bad but it's not: ...
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View Post: Singing Tips and Multimedia Softwares: Damaging vocal technique
16 Jun 2007 by Lionel  
If the tongue is flat, then the mass of muscle at the back of the tongue (tongue root) is forced into the pharynx. This fills up the primary resonator (pharynx) with tongue mass which can be compared to singing with a pillow in one's throat . .... (6) There cannot be a healthy breath line because the breath is choked off by the root of the tongue. (7) It is impossible to create a musical phrase because the singer cannot crescendo or decrescendo healthily. ...
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