Definitions for pharynx

pharynx phar·ynx

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IPA: /ˈfær ɪŋks/

Pharynx is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in pharynx (ahnprxy).

Definitions for pharynx

noun

  1. the tube or cavity, with its surrounding membrane and muscles, that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus.

Origin of pharynx

1685-95; New Latin Greek phárynx throat, akin to pháranx gulf, chasm

Examples for pharynx

Thus the opening from the larynx into the pharynx is closed.

It is just cephalad to the anterior end of the pharynx and to the hypophysis.

Yet this wonderful appliance had neither tongue nor teeth, larynx nor pharynx.

The toilet of the pharynx and œsophagus remains to be decided.

Then the pharynx squeezes it down a long tube and into the stomach.

Just back of the pharynx is the esophagus which leads to the beginning of the stomach.

From the pharynx lead off the gullet and windpipe, the former back of the latter.

Behind the pharynx comes the gullet, which leads down to the gizzard.

The first part nearest the mouth is the pharynx which merges gradually into the gullet.

No foreign body was palpable with the finger in the pharynx.

Word Value for pharynx
Scrable

22

Words with friends

22

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