Eat, drink and be merry. And thank your epiglottis, themarvelous flap of cartilage in your throat that makes the first twoacts possible. Make that all three: If you couldn’t eat or drink,you wouldn’t ...

The condition that ended Omaha Beach 's chances of running in the May 4 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) is familiar enough to horsemen but remains a fairly uncommon diagnosis among ...

Omaha Beach, the odds-on favorite to win the Kentucky Derby this weekend, is officially a scratch. The colt had been tagged as the 4-1 favorite. According to Yahoo Sports, “Omaha Beach reportedly was ...

Epiglottitis is inflammation and swelling of the epiglottis. The epiglottis lies just behind the root of the tongue at the back of the mouth. The epiglottis is a leaf-shaped flap of cartilage tissue.

Trainer Richard Mandella has never won a Kentucky Derby, but there was plenty of optimism that the streak would end this year thanks to favorite Omaha Beach. Unfortunately for Mandella, Omaha Beach ...

FROM an anthropotomical point of view the epiglottis had for a long time been generally looked upon as a kind of sentinel for the protection of the upper air-passages, when Rückert's comparative ...