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A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials, which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches.

Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx.

Situated beneath the esophagus. [Written also suboesophageal.] Subesophageal ganglion (Zoöl.), a large special ganglion situated beneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.

Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the esophagus; as, the supra-esophageal ganglion of Crustacea. [Written also supra- oesophagal, and supra-oesophageal.]

Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.

To thaw; to become liquid again. Tennyson.

To adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. Spenser.

reduce; as, an old appalled wight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse…

The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.

Coccygeal. [R.]

The state of being congealed.

Coagulated. [Obs.] His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed. Spenser.

rystal streams that murmur through the meads. Dryden. The crystal pellets at the touch congeal, And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail. H. Brooks.

To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle. Does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother Shak.

To thicken; to congeal. Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold. Southey.

To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.] Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

Esophageal.

Esophageal.

Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.