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Article: Gross out?(Activities & Oddities)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- April 26, 2004
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Get this guy a tissue! Last fall, Manohar--nicknamed Snake Mano--from Chennai, India, threaded a live snake up his nostril and out of his mouth.
How did Mano pull off the slithery feat? "The nasal passage and mouth are connected in the pharynx [back of the throat]," says Dr. Jerry Schreibstein from the American Academy of Otolaryngology (study of ear, nose, and throat disorders). The pharynx is attached to two pathways: a pipe that carries air to your lungs, and the esophagus (food pipe), which delivers food to your stomach.
Normally, if you pop a snack--or in Mano's case a snake--into your mouth, your soft palate (flaplike tissue at the back of the roof ...