Definitionn. a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing
Last update: July 28, 2015
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Epipharynx: an organ, probably of taste, attached to the inner surface of the labium and supposed to correspond to the palate of higher animals Epiglossa or epiglottis. [Please select]
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She watched him sometimes, at the table, when on Sundays he ate the mid-day meal with them; his thin hatchet face, his prominent epiglottis. [Please select]
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The epiglottis is of such a size that the finger does not excite a desire to vomit; and the pharynx and oesophagus are so lax that the passage presents no obstruction. [Please select]
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Murie: "In front of the larynx of man we all know that there is an elastic lid, the epiglottis, which folds over and protects the air passage as food is swallowed." [Please select]
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Now, in the comparatively voiceless whale, the cartilages, including the epiglottis, form a long rigid cylindrical tube, which is thrust up the passage at the back of the palate in continuity with the blow-hole. [Please select]
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