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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The symptom usually occurs with spasms of the pharynx, or cavity behind the nose and mouth.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Has a bellows-like pharynx that enables it to vacuum its prey into its mouth.
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• Zenker’s diverticulum is a pouch that forms where the pharynx, or voicebox, meets the esophagus.
  — Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Hagfish take in water through their nasopharyngeal duct, which leads to their pharynx and gill pouches.
  — Mary Bates, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2014
• 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
• Laryngopharyngeal reflux is when stomach acid comes all the way up the esophagus into the pharynx.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024