Definition of Pharynges

1. Noun. (plural of pharynx) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pharynges

1. pharynx [n] - See also: pharynx

Medical Definition of Pharynges

1. Plural of pharynx. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pharynges

pharyngeal reflex
pharyngeal ridge
pharyngeal space
pharyngeal tonsil
pharyngeal tonsils
pharyngeal tubercle
pharyngeal vein
pharyngeal veins
pharyngealization
pharyngealize
pharyngealized
pharyngealizes
pharyngealizing
pharyngectomy
pharyngei
pharynges (current term)
pharyngeus
pharyngismus
pharyngitic
pharyngitides
pharyngitis
pharyngitis sicca
pharyngo-
pharyngo-oral
pharyngobasilar fascia
pharyngobranchial
pharyngobranchial ducts
pharyngobranchials
pharyngobranchii
pharyngocele

Literary usage of Pharynges

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by College of Physicians of Philadelphia (1853)
"The pharynges communicated, and, from the funnel-shaped cavity formed by their junction, there proceeded a single oesophagus. The oesophagus terminated in a ..."

2. Collected Reprints, 1896-1915 by Frank Rattray Lillie (1896)
"The original partitions are recognizable for a long time as pointed projections of tissue into the pouch between the pharynges, Figs. 3 and 4. ..."

3. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Body elongate and flat, with a rounded head end and a blunt tail end; many pharynges present which lie in a common chamber and when extruded reach the ..."

4. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1902)
"I tried to determine, if, in these pieces with two pharynges in a single body, the body would be relatively broader than in a normal worm of the same length ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... and the purulent secretion often seen in the naso- pharynges of the chronically insane, ceases as the long-standing cases of hallucination improve. ..."

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