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1. How is it possible to choke on your food? Windpipe tissue breaks down. There are excess cilia in the trachea. The epiglottis gets overloaded. Mucus moves downward instead of …
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1. How is it possible to choke on your food?
Windpipe tissue breaks down.
There are excess cilia in the trachea.
The epiglottis gets overloaded.
Mucus moves downward instead of upward.
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C) The epiglottis gets overloaded.
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