What is it
Feb 19, 2021 12:29:43 #
Scruples wrote:
It is a Uvula. Does anybody know what it’s function?
Yes, it restricts my large vitamin tablets from going down easily!
Feb 19, 2021 13:00:38 #
Epiglottis. It is a valve that prevents food & liguids from entering the airway and lungs. Malfunction is dangerous.
Feb 19, 2021 13:06:38 #
JimBart
Loc: Western Michigan
Don’t know the real answer but thought it was the uvula. John also got thinking with his response
Feb 19, 2021 13:15:19 #
I came up with ugula. Close but no cigar. The epiglottis is down in the throat.
Feb 19, 2021 13:33:36 #
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
Actually the uvula is an extension of the structure that prevents food from getting into the nasal passage. The preventive structure is the soft palate, an extension of the hard palate, or roof of the mouth.
Maybe this is a little know fact, but the soft palate also revents one from inhaling or exhaling when swallowing. It is constructed slightly differently in infants and allows them to breath while nursing.
Maybe this is a little know fact, but the soft palate also revents one from inhaling or exhaling when swallowing. It is constructed slightly differently in infants and allows them to breath while nursing.
I beat you to it. PLUS, I said the same thing using significantly fewer words.
BTW, you missed the function it plays in speech.
Feb 19, 2021 13:51:16 #
gray_ghost2
Loc: Antelope, (Sac) Ca.
Thank you for that. It was interesting in what other people termed what it is called. Unaware of how it function with nursing.
Feb 19, 2021 14:04:54 #
Feb 19, 2021 14:50:57 #
Feb 20, 2021 19:18:51 #
My mom told me early on it was the gurgle... And she was always correct - just had to ask her.
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