Pharynx Definition

fărĭngks
pharynges, pharynxes
noun
pharynges
The muscular and membranous cavity of the alimentary canal leading from the mouth and nasal passages to the larynx and esophagus.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
pharynx
Plural:
pharynges, pharynxes

Origin of Pharynx

  • From New Latin pharynx, from Ancient Greek φάρυγξ (pharunks, “pharynx").

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin pharynx pharyng- from Greek pharunx

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pharynx Sentence Examples

  • The mouth opens into a muscular pharynx lined by a thick cuticle.

  • The mouth is minute and the pharynx is always suctorial, never gizzard-like.

  • A buccal cavity, a pharynx, an oesophagus and an intestine are always distinguishable.

  • There is no armed protrusible pharynx, such as exists in some other Chaetopods.

  • When they are arranged in uniserial or biserial rows the genital ducts open into or near the branchial grooves in the region of the pharynx and in a corresponding position in the post-branchial region.

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