Pharynx

pharynx
tube connecting the mouth of the esophagus and also to the larynx
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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pharynx
(fah-rinks)
An area in the vertebrate throat where air and food passages cross; in flatworms, the muscular tube that protrudes from the ventral side of the worm and ends in the mouth.
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pharynx The passageway between the mouth and the esophagus and trachea. Food passes from the pharynx to the esophagus, and air passes from the pharynx to the trachea.
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pharynx: the cavity at the rear of the mouth that the nasal chambers open into; the throat.
phenotype: the expression of genes and the physical characteristics that result.
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pharynx -- Cavity in the digestive tract just past the mouth itself. May be muscularized for sucking or swallowing in various animals.
phylum -- n. A category in the hierarchy of animal classification between class and kingdom; phyla- pl.
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pharynx The part of the digestive tract between the mouth cavity and the esophagus that, in vertebrates, is common to both digestive and respiratory tracts. In cephalochordates the gill slits open from it.
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Pharynx the throat area shared in common by the respiratory and digestive systems
(pharynx = throat)
Phenotype the organism's expressed traits what it looks like how the genes are expressed
(pheno = show seem appear) ...
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Epithelial cells like those in the nasopharynx have receptors that are responsible for transporting IgA and IgM antibodies from the blood to the cell surface. The pneumococcus exploits this receptor for a return trip into the cell.
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Air is brought into the animal via the airways - in reptiles, birds and mammals this often consists of the nose; the pharynx; the larynx; the trachea; the bronchi and bronchioles; and the terminal branches of the respiratory tree.
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Spratt (University of Sussex, U.K.), both inter- and intraspecies recombination can occur in bacteria, particularly when the bacteria coexist in an environment such as the nasopharynx.
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[Gr. thyreoeides - sheild form]. An endocrine gland in the throat region which is responsible for controlling metabolism and growth. It is formed from a ventral diverticulum of the endoderm of the pharynx at the level of the second pharyngeal arch.
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