stylopharyngeus

Borrowed from New Latin stylopharyngeus, clipping of mūsculus stylopharyngeus (“stylopharyngeal muscle”). Doublet of stylopharyngeal.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌstaɪ.loʊ.fəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əs/, /ˌstaɪ.loʊˌfæɹ.ənˈd͡ʒi.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒiəs, -iːəs

stylopharyngeus (plural stylopharyngei)

1. (anatomy) A slender muscle in the head that arises from the base of the styloid process of the temporal bone, inserts into the side of the pharynx, and acts with the contralateral muscle in swallowing to increase the transverse diameter of the pharynx by drawing its sides upward and laterally.

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

From stylus (“a stake, pale”) +‎ -o- +‎ pharyngeus (“pharyngeal”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sty.lo.pʰaˈryn.ɡe.us/, [s̠t̪ʏɫ̪ɔpʰäˈrʏŋɡeʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sti.lo.faˈrin.d͡ʒe.us/, [st̪ilofäˈrin̠ʲd͡ʒeus]

stylopharyngeus (feminine stylopharyngea, neuter stylopharyngeum); first/second-declension adjective (New Latin)

1. (anatomy, relational) stylopharyngeal

First/second-declension adjective.

• ⇒ English: stylopharyngeal
• → English: stylopharyngeus