What Is the Esophagus?
The esophagus is a channel of muscles that connects the throat to the stomach. The esophagus itself does not have any digestive effect, its main function is only to help transport food into the stomach.
- Chinese name
- esophagus
- Definition
- A channel made up of muscles
- Connection position
- connection
- The esophagus is a channel of muscles that connects the throat to the stomach. The esophagus itself does not have any digestive effect, its main function is only to help transport food into the stomach.
- 1. The way of living food. Refers to the ancient funeral, the dead corpse's mouth was filled with raw rice and shellfish without cooked rice.
- 2. The way to transport grain.
- 3, esophagus.
- When food enters the throat, the reflex action of swallowing is triggered, and since then the process of digestion is out of the control of self-consciousness. This swallowing reflex action is primarily peristaltic to push food into the stomach. There is a sphincter at the end of the esophagus that meets the stomach to ensure that gastric acid does not flow back into the esophagus.