Food, in order to reach the gullet from the mouth cavity, must pass over the opening into the windpipe.
Illustration: Peristaltic waves on the gullet of man.
On each side of the gullet we can see the gill arches, guarded on the inner side by a series of sharp-pointed structures, the gill rakers.
He remarked, indeed, some sharp tones which formed the double octave, and which were emitted like lightning; but this happens rarely, and when the bird by a powerful effort of the gulletraises his voice to the octave.
The stomach was palpated for recently ingested food items, and any detected were forced up into the gullet to be identified, then were squeezed back into the stomach.
As before pointed out, it is not enough to say that a nasty taste or a sting in the gullet is disadvantageous; it must be shown that the disadvantage has an eliminating value.
The mouth is almost or quite toothless; but in the throat hard-tipped spines project into the gullet from the vertebræ of the column in this region.
But the gullet was shown to be pulled down; for otherwise it would not have drawn upon the larynx.
Thus, in this respect at least, the condition of the gullet is precisely similar to what it is in the act of swallowing.
For is it not indicative of attraction that always when the lower parts of the gullet dilate the upper parts contract?
But if it contracts, without in any way being diminished in length, this is because downward traction of thegullet is not a property of the movement of circular peristalsis.
For is it not indicative of peristalsis that always when the upper parts of the gulletcontract the lower parts dilate?
The hypopharynx tapers down to the gullet like a funnel, and the larynx is suspended in its lumen from the anterior wall.
The gullet was capable of great extension, the paunch was empty, the heart large for the bird, and the liver uncommonly so.
The pommel is made up of a gullet plate, which is a steel arch that goes over the withers, and its coverings.
The points of the tree are connected, one on each side, to the front ends of the bars and to the gullet plate, and they point downwards.
Sometimes the gullet is also scraped with mussel-shells.
The outer membranes of the gullet are cut away while it is quite fresh, and then it is drawn over a round stick prepared for the purpose, and greased with blubber.
He stretched his mouth from his jaw-bones to his ears; he opened his mouth wide to his jaw so that his gullet was seen.
The gullet having been severed, well in front of the valve, pressure was applied with a blunt tool with the object of forcing the blood through the gullet.
On rare occasions it is found in the gullet when fleas have been killed immediately after feeding on septicæmic blood.
The two of them, morsels down the gullet of skies, seemingly torn by winds active as enzymes, pummeled the air futilely with desperate, flailing limbs in an attempt to swim through the air from whence they came but could never return.
Your Cerberus, if you remember well, For that still bears his chin and gullet peeled.
With the one; the subtle Italian had intended to close up the Gullet to the States' fleets.
This budding off of the lungs from the gullet is the reason why the air we breathe and the food we swallow go down the same passage.
It does not fall of its own weight, like coal down a chute, but each separate swallow is carried down the whole nine inches of the gullet by a wave of muscular action.
The gullet passes down the neck, inclining to the left side of the windpipe, until it reaches the diaphragm, through a perforation of which it passes, and finally terminates in the stomach.
The inner coat of the gullet is a continuation of the same membrane that lines the mouth, nostrils, &c.
If a pig is killed, the portion burned in the sacrificial fire is the heart in Florida, but the gullet at Bugotu.
To see that fellow coming up out of a gullet and stepping up the street, in the middle of the broad daylight, you'd imagine he was the county inspector of police.
You will come to a stream and a gullet and a road clipping into the hills from it to the right; go past that road.
From here they go up the windpipe to the throat, and then down the gullet to the bowels.
It has something like gills, and a gullet like the lower forms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gullet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
