Eat, drink and be merry. And thank your epiglottis, themarvelous flap of cartilage in your throat that makes the first twoacts possible. Make that all three: If you couldn’t eat or drink,you wouldn’t ...

Swallowing is one of the most obvious functions the epiglottis serves because it covers the airway, or larynx, when you eat and drink. When you swallow, the muscles in your throat respond by pulling ...

Dear Dr. Johnson: Is there a kind of sore throat that can be dangerous –so much so that doctors don`t even like to examine the throat? A friend was telling me about this, but I don`t know if I believe ...

a: Line drawing indicates the constrictor and suspensory musculature of the pharynx viewed from the side. The constrictor muscles overlap, the inferior constrictor being the most external, and the ...

FROM an anthropotomical point of view the epiglottis had for a long time been generally looked upon as a kind of sentinel for the protection of the upper air-passages, when Rückert's comparative ...

Please give me some advise on my husband's problem. When he has a few drinks with our friends, then the next morning when he wakes up, his epiglottis is extremely swollen, so bad that he can hardly ...