pharynx
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Definition
A portion of the respiratory and digestive tracts; its distal limit is the superior part of the esophagus and it connects the nasal and oral cavities with the esophagus and larynx; it contains the valleculae and the pyriform recesses; its upper limits are the nasal cavity and cranial base.[FEED].
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Arterial supply
- ascending pharyngeal artery
- Venous drainage
- pharyngeal venous plexus
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 2855
- TA98
- A05.3.01.001
- FMA
- 46688
- UBERON
- 0001042
- Wikidata
- Q174778
