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The laryngeal crossroads represents the junction between the sterile, IgG-dominated lower airway and the bacteria-rich, IgA-dominated upper airway. Things inhaled pass through a turbulent, narrow aperture in ‘breathing mode’ and everything ingested passes over the larynx’s surface in ‘sphincter mode’.
