Usually means: Passage for air and food.
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  1. pharynx: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pharynx: Merriam-Webster
  3. pharynx: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pharynx: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pharynx: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pharynx: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pharynx, pharynx: Wordnik
  8. pharynx: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pharynx, Pharynx, Pharynx, Pharynx, Pharynx: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. pharynx: Wiktionary
  11. pharynx: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. pharynx: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. pharynx: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. pharynx: Dictionary.com
  15. pharynx: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Pharynx: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pharynx: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pharynx: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pharynx: Rhymezone
  20. Pharynx: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pharynx: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pharynx: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. Pharynx: Lexicon of Linguistics

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  1. pharynx: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. pharynx: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pharynx: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Pharynx: Merck Manuals
  6. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
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  8. Pharynx: Anatomy of the Human Body
  9. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  10. Pharynx: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  11. Pharynx: Scleroderma
  12. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  13. pharynx: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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  15. pharynx: Medical dictionary
  16. Pharynx: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  1. pharynx: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
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  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  4. pharynx: Natural History Terms

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  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See pharynges as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.

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