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Pharynx in context

Parts of the pharynx

Borrowing from New Latin pharynx, from Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phắrŭnx, “throat”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ɹɪŋks/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɛɹ.ɪŋks/, /ˈfæɹ.ɪŋks/
• Rhymes: -æɹɪŋks, -ɛəɹɪŋks

pharynx (plural pharynges or pharynxes)

1. (anatomy) The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus.
   Meronyms: nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx, velopharynx, glossopharynx
2. (zootomy) The part of the alimentary canal immediately behind the mouth in invertebrates that may be thickened and muscular, eversible and toothed, or adapted as a suctorial organ.

• actinopharynx

• buccopharynx

• craniopharyngioma

• cytopharynx

• epipharynx

• glossopharynx

• hypopharynx

• laryngopharynx

• mesopharynx

• nasopharynx

• neopharynx

• oropharynx

• palatopharynx

• pharyngal

• pharyngotomy

• retropharynx

• rhinopharynx

• velopharynx

• pharyngeal

• pharyngo-, pharyng-

part of the alimentary canal

• Arabic: بُلْعُوم m (bulʕūm)
  Egyptian Arabic: بَلعوم m (balʕūm, balʕōm), لغلوغ m (laḡlūḡ)
  Hijazi Arabic: بَلْعوم m (balʕūm)

• Armenian: ըմպան (hy) (əmpan), կոկորդաբերան (hy) (kokordaberan)

• Asturian: farinxe (ast) f

• Bengali: গলবিল (bn) (golbil)

• Bulgarian: глътка (bg) f (glǎtka), фаринкс m (farinks)

• Catalan: faringe (ca) f

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 咽頭 / 咽头 (zh) (yāntóu), 咽 (zh) (yān)

• Czech: hltan (cs) m

• Danish: svælg (da) n

• Dutch: farynx (nl) m

• Esperanto: faringo

• Estonian: neel, faarünks

• Faroese: svølg n, svølgrúm n

• Finnish: nielu (fi), farynks

• French: pharynx (fr) m

• Friulian: faringje m or f

• Galician: farinxe (gl) f

• German: Rachen (de) m; Pharynx (de) m

• Greek: φάρυγγας (el) m (fáryngas)

• Hebrew: לֹעַ (he) m (lóa), בֵּית הַבְּלִיעָה (he) m (bet habli'á)

• Hungarian: garat (hu)

• Icelandic: kok (is) n

• Ido: faringo (io)

• Interlingua: pharynge

• Irish: faraing f

• Italian: faringe (it) m

• Japanese: 咽頭 (ja) (intō)

• Korean: 인두(咽頭) (ko) (indu)

• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: gewrî (ku) f, gerû (ku) f

• Latin: pharynx m

• Macedonian: го́лтник m (góltnik), ждре́ло n (ždrélo)

• Malay: farinks

• Māori: paeoro

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: svelg n
  Nynorsk: svelg n

• Occitan: faringe (oc) f

• Persian: حلق (fa) (halq), نای‌گلو (nây-gelu)

• Polish: gardło (pl) n

• Portuguese: faringe (pt) f

• Romanian: faringe (ro) n

• Russian: фа́ринкс m (fárinks), зев (ru) m (zev), гло́тка (ru) f (glótka), горта́нь (ru) f (gortánʹ)

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ждријело n
  Latin: ždrijelo (sh) n

• Slovak: hltan (sk) m

• Slovene: žrêlo n

• Spanish: faringe (es) f

• Swedish: svalg (sv) n

• Tagalog: lalagukan

• Tamil: தொண்டைப்புரை (toṇṭaippurai)

• Thai: คอหอย (th) (kɔɔ-hɔ̌i), ช่องคอ (chɔ̂ng-kɔɔ)

• Turkish: yutak (tr)

• Vietnamese: yết hầu (vi)

• Volapük: farin

• larynx

• “pharynx”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• “pharynx”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• “pharynx”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pharynx”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• “pharynx”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA(key): /fa.ʁɛ̃ks/

pharynx m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) pharynx

• nasopharynx

• oropharynx

• pharyngé

• pharyngien

• pharyngite

• pharyngolaryngite

• “pharynx”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φάρυγξ (phárunx, “throat, gullet”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpʰa.ryŋks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfaː.riŋks]

pharynx f (genitive pharyngis); third declension (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) the pharynx

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Third-declension noun.

• pharyngeus (adjective)
• pharyngeālis
• → English: pharynx