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" ... Your epiglottis is a lid made out of cartilage that sits on top of the entrance to your larynx, the pipe that leads your lungs. This lid is supposed to close every time you swallow so that food, drink, saliva and Skittles don't go down into lungs and instead move down your esophagus into your stomach. Think of the epiglottis as a lid that effectively says, "No, no, no, don't you even dare come down here (into the lungs)." When the epiglottis malfunctions, things can make it down into the lungs and cause damage and pneumonia. Adding an -itis to the name of a body part means that the body part is inflamed and swollen (such as dermatitis, which is inflamed skin, and arthritis, which is swollen joints.) When the epiglottis gets inflamed and swollen, it can clog up your airway (larynx) so that you cannot get air into your lungs and thus be life-threatening. Here's Silverman's tweet about it: ... "