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Pharyngeal  n.  (Anat.) A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches.





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... the choking, it may lodge in the upper part of the esophagus, at its middle portion, or close to the stomach, giving rise to the designations of pharyngeal, cervical, and thoracic choke. In some cases where the original obstruction is low we find all that part of the gullet above it to ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture


Words linked to "Pharyngeal" :   pharyngeal tonsil, pharynx, guttural consonant, pharyngeal recess


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