How to Use pharynx in a Sentence
pharynx
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In the emergency room, X-rays showed that the pent-up pressure from the sneeze had escaped the windpipe and ripped the soft tissue of his pharynx.
—Sarah Rense, Esquire, 16 Jan. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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The symptom usually occurs with spasms of the pharynx, or cavity behind the nose and mouth.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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Has a bellows-like pharynx that enables it to vacuum its prey into its mouth.
—Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022
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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
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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
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Zenker’s diverticulum is a pouch that forms where the pharynx, or voicebox, meets the esophagus.
—Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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Hagfish take in water through their nasopharyngeal duct, which leads to their pharynx and gill pouches.
—Mary Bates, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2014
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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
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Laryngopharyngeal reflux is when stomach acid comes all the way up the esophagus into the pharynx.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 July 2022
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The monkeys given the highest dose of vaccine had the best response: Seven days after the animals received the virus, researchers could not detect it in the pharynx or lungs of any of them.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 23 Apr. 2020
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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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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
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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
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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
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New fossils from rocks dating to the Cretaceous period from southeastern Morocco, known as the Kem-Kem beds, show that spinosaurs were able to widen their jaws and greatly open the pharynx to swallow over-sized chunks of food.
—Jon Tennant, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2016
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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
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Alcohol is known to be a direct cause of seven types of cancer: oral cavity, pharynx (throat), larynx (voice box), liver, breast, and colorectal.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Mar. 2023
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In humans, the upper esophageal sphincter is a high-pressure zone situated between the pharynx and the cervical esophagus.
—Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2015
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