pharynx

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ɹɪŋks/

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• (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.

• pharyngeal
• pharyngo-, pharyng-

• larynx

• “pharynx”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pharynx”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “pharynx”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “pharynx”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “pharynx”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /fa.ʁɛ̃ks/

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pharynx m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) pharynx

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

Borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phárunx, “throat, gullet”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.rynks/, [ˈpʰärʏŋks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.rinks/, [ˈfäːriŋks]

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

1. (anatomy) the pharynx

Third-declension noun.

• pharyngeus (adjective)

• pharyngeālis

• → English: pharynx