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Pharynx

noun

(pl. pharynges)

The passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone. Synonym: throat.

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"Pharynx" Quotes from Famous Books

... the pharynx and of the esophagus is made chiefly by pressing upon the skin covering these organs in the region of the throat and along the left side of the neck in the jugular gutter. Sometimes, when a more careful examination is necessary, an esophageal ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... apparatus of the human body consists of the alimentary canal and tributary organs which, although outside of this canal, communicate with it by ducts. The alimentary canal consists of the mouth, the pharynx, the oesophagus, the stomach, and the intestines. Other digestive organs which are tributary to this canal, and discharge their secretions into it, are the salivary glands,[20] the ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

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