Identifier: humanbodybeginne00mart (find matches)
Title: The human body. A beginner's text-book of anatomy, physiology and hygiene ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Martin, H. Newell (Henry Newell), 1848-1896 Martin, Hetty Cary, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Physiology
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he pharynx. Thethings which we swallow arehurried through the pha-rynx very fast, so as to getit clear, and enable us tobreathe again. 3. The Passage of Food andDrink along the Gullet or oeso-phagus, is slow. A mouthful of food or drink when it has ryni?-4i;r?he%TZencemenfVth;r^^ir^^r^A 4-u^ .^ u J guUet and laryDX, as exposccl by a scc- entered the oesophagus does fion, a little to the left of the middle ^ J J . . . of the head, a, vertebral column; b, not drop down that tube into gullet; c, windpipe; d, larynx; e, epi- 1 1 . , glottis: y; soft palate;^, opening of the stomach, like a brick Eustachian tube; the letters ^,/,^ are placed in the pharynx; k, tongue; /, lallins^ down a chimney, but hard palate; w, the sphenoid bone on -^ the base of the skull; «, the fore part is seized by the muscular of the cranial cavity; o, p ^ the •^ turbinate bones of the outer side of the rings in the coat of the gul- ^^^^ nostril-chamber. let, which contract one after another and push it along.
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into the nose ? Into the windpipe ? What does it enter when forcedout of the pharynx? What is meant when a morsel of food is said tohave gone the wrong way ? Why is food sent quickly through thepharynx? 3. How do food and drink pass along the gullet ? Illustrate. 112 THE STOMACH. For this reason, horses and many other animals are ableto swallow, although they usually eat with their mouthsmuch lower than their stomachs; and jugglers are ableto drink a glass of water while standing on the head. 4. The Stomach (Fig. 31) is a dilated portion of thealimentary canal, which lies at the lower end of the oeso-phagus, in the upper part of the abdomen, rather moreon the left than the right side of the body (see Fig. 2).Outside its lining mucous membrane, is a thick muscularcoat. Fig. 31.—The stomach viewed from the front, d, lower end of the gullet; a^position of the cardiac aperture; 3, the fundus; c, the pylorus; ^, the first part ofthe small intestine. The gullet, ^, opens into the upper si

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