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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.

An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.

cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.

Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.

Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.

Pharyngeal. H. Sweet.

chiæ; -- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See Pharyngeal. -- n.

A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.

nk, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation. Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children . . . with thirst Ex. xvii. 3. With thirst, with cold, with hunge…

clefts on the sides just back of the mouth in the vertebrate embryo, which open into the pharyngeal portion of the alimentary canal, and correspond to the branchial clefts in adult fishes.