How to Use pharynx in a Sentence

pharynx

noun
  • The flow of water is powered by beating tails on the cells of the basket/pharynx.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American Blog Network, 10 July 2017
  • Your throat, or pharynx, is a tube that carries air to your windpipe and larynx (known as the voice box).
    — Laura Schober, Health, 3 July 2024
  • The zigzag ended at the pharynx of a cave, reminiscent of a human face with one eye.
    — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Has a bellows-like pharynx that enables it to vacuum its prey into its mouth.
    — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022
  • Hagfish take in water through their nasopharyngeal duct, which leads to their pharynx and gill pouches.
    — Mary Bates, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2014
  • The other type of reflux involves the upper part of the throat that includes the voicebox and pharynx, or the back of the mouth .
    — Alice Park, Time, 7 Sep. 2017
  • That left behind just the worm's tube-like mouth sticking out of its belly, attached to its digestive tract via the pharynx.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 13 June 2017
  • Tardigrades have eight legs with claws at the end, a brain and a central nervous system, and a sucker-like pharynx behind their mouth.
    — Cnn, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Most tests rely on a nasal swab that penetrates deep into the pharynx, the mucous membrane behind the nose and mouth.
    — Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
  • In the lungs, the larvae claw their way out of the organ's tiny air sacs and then clamber up to the windpipe to the pharynx to be coughed and swallowed.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The symptom usually occurs with spasms of the pharynx, or cavity behind the nose and mouth.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Simmons reported that Harris’ head, eyes, ears, nose and pharynx are normal.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Tardigrades have eight legs with claws at the end, a brain and central nervous system, and a sucker-like pharynx behind their mouth, which can pierce food.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Zenker’s diverticulum is a pouch that forms where the pharynx, or voicebox, meets the esophagus.
    — Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The researchers found that after seven days, there was no presence of the virus in the pharynx, crissum and lungs of the monkeys in the group with the highest dosage.
    — Fox News, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Laryngopharyngeal reflux is when stomach acid comes all the way up the esophagus into the pharynx.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 July 2022
  • Small particles can get caught in your dog's nasal passages or pharynx, causing irritation and prompting a sneeze.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Sipping hot fluids helps to warm the bottom of your nasal pharynx, which can also help improve symptoms, Saketkhoo explained.
    — Lisa Drayer, CNN, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The scientific name for this process is retro nasal olfaction, where the odors flow from the back of your mouth up through your nasal pharynx and into your nasal cavity.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 June 2021
  • These include cancer of the mouth, throat (pharynx and larynx), oesophagus, bowel, liver and breast.
    — Jasmine Wallis, refinery29.com, 30 May 2024
  • The second phase of this vaccine strategy exploits the influenza virus’s ability to enter the body through the nasal pharynx.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • In addition to perforating your pharynx, slamming your nose and mouth shut mid-sneeze could also perforate the eardrum or rupture a vein in the brain.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Diel noted that although more study is needed, the fluid matrix of the milk might have allowed the virus to have higher contact with mucous membranes in the pharynx.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Large droplets fall quickly to the ground, but the rush of air also creates an aerosolized mixture of everything that’s lingering in the mucus membrane of your pharynx.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
  • In subjects practicing fellatio this reflex is absent even when the tongue depressor is inserted well into the vault of the pharynx.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2010
  • Of these features, the adults retain only a small portion of the nerve cord and the pharyngeal slits, which become the basket-like pharynx the animal uses to feed and breathe.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American Blog Network, 10 July 2017
  • At the same time, the larynx — the structure in the pharynx that guards the entrance to the lungs — closes up and shifts downward, sealing off the lower respiratory tract.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • In other words, during swallowing, the pharynx only leads to the digestive tract and the upper and lower airways are protected.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Finally, your partner may not thank you for this but singing is a good way to stimulate your vagus nerve, which carries signals between your brain and heart and runs through your larynx and pharynx.
    — Georgia Day, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2024
  • From the baboon’s larynx and vocal folds, which is high up and close to their chin line, there’s just a short step up through the cavity called the pharynx, then a long way out the horizontal oral cavity.
    — Louis-Jean Boë, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2019

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