A funnel-shaped fibromuscular tube that conducts food to the ESOPHAGUS, and air to the LARYNX and LUNGS. It is located posterior to the NASAL CAVITY; ORAL CAVITY; and LARYNX, and extends from the SKULL BASE to the inferior border of the CRICOID CARTILAGE anteriorly and to the inferior border of the C6 vertebra posteriorly. It is divided into the NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; and HYPOPHARYNX (laryngopharynx).
    

concept

The diaphragm (fig. 1) after Haller, the pharynx, seen from the back and the larynx seen from the front (figs 2-3), after Duverney, and the larynx seen from the back and open and from the side (figs 4-5), after Eustachius. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

Diaphragm, pharynx and foot dissections: seventeen figures. Line engraving by P. Rothwell, 1789, after J. Wandelaer after B.S. Albinus.

Pharynx

Images

Catalogue

Some sequels in throat surgery / by G. Hunter Mackenzie.

The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat : with an appendix on rhinoscopy / by Morell Mackenzie.

Tuberculose du système lymphatique pharyngocervical / par H. Guillon [and others] ; avec la collaboration de M. Oury.

Your nose, throat and ears : their health and care / by L.W. Oaks and H.G. Merrill.

Clinical radiology of the ear, nose and throat / by Eric Samuel.