Area from nasal cavity to pharynx…connect the nose to the throat

Taste buds

Produce saliva

Area where air and food passages join…the back of the throat

Small flap of cartilage on the back of the tongue that covers the glottis (opening to trachea) when you swallow (so you don’t choke)

Chamber made of cartilage where your voice box is (Adam’s apple)

Muscular tube that connects the pharynx to the stomach

Bone that divides the sinus cavity from the mouth

Hole leading to the trachea (windpipe)

The little piece of flesh that hangs down from the rear portion of the soft palate. It blocks food from entering the nasal passage. It aids in speech, activates the gag reflex

Muscle in the mouth that aids in talking and manipulation of food.

The fold of mucous membrane that attaches the free part of the tongue to the floor of the mouth.

Large flat muscle at the bottom of the rib cage…aids in breathing

Makes T-cells

Voice box

Windpipe…how air gets to your lungs

Produces growth hormones (thyroxin and calcitonin)

Connects pharynx to the stomach

Body cavity…contains all the internal organs of the thorax and abdomen

Same thing as the Thymus gland

Area posterior to the diaphragm

Area anterior to the diaphragm

Area containing the lungs

Area surrounding the heart

Membrane covering the abdominal cavity