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chordate pharynx
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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].

Consider generalizing to deuterostome pharynx

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Broad Synonyms
pharynx
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external_definition
  • A funnel-shaped fibromuscular tube that conducts food to the ESOPHAGUS, and air to the LARYNYX and LUNGS. It is located posterior to the NASAL CAVITY; ORAL CAVITY; and LARYNX, and extends from the SKULL BASE to the inferior border of the CRICOID CARTILAGE anteriorly and to the inferior border of the C6 vertebra posteriorly. It is divided into the NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; and HYPOPHARYNX (laryngopharynx)[MESH:A03.867].
  • Anatomical cavity bounded by the derivatives of the branchial arches.[AAO]
  • Swollen region of the anterior foregut, posterior to the mouth and anterior to the liver; its walls form the jaws and gills[pharynxzfa, ZFIN:ZDB-PUB-961014-576].
  • Swollen region of the anterior foregut, posterior to the mouth and anterior to the liver; its walls form the jaws and gills. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO]
  • The portion of the alimentary canal between the mouth and the oesophagus. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]
external_ontology_notes

MA/FMA pharynx not part of digestive/alimentary system, we are consistent with this scheme

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uberon

homology_notes

(...) the earliest vertebrates possessed unjointed internal and external branchial arches, and musculature encircling the pharynx.[well established][VHOG]

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