You may be asked to swallow to help move the tube along.

Your doctor may recommend tests such as an X-ray, endoscopy, or barium swallow to help find the object if it doesn't come out in the stool, or if an inhaled object is not coughed out.

Beyond lies the powerful muscular gizzard, lined by pyloric glands, and, in some species, containing stones that the animal swallows to help grind up food.

Instead, swallow them quickly to help protect your teeth from stains.

When this cartoon aired on ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, the part where an anxious Barnyard Dawg swallows an entire box of sleeping pills to help calm his nerves was cut to remove the dog actually ingesting the pills [1].

A dye may be injected into a vein or swallowed to help areas of the brain show up more clearly.

Kaplan believes that, among other medical applications, soft-bodied robots could replace tiny cameras that patients swallow to help diagnose diseases.

Crocodiles sometimes swallow stones to help in digestion and add weight so that they can stay underwater.