The human body is made up of many amazing parts and systems that all work together to keep us healthy. One of the key components of both the respiratory system and the digestive system is the pharynx, ...

The oral cavity and oropharynx are spaces defined by both hard and soft tissue structures. The oral cavity has muscle and bony boundaries, but the pharynx is a ...

Visualization of the larynx and pharynx is an essential part of a complete head and neck examination. Although the location of these structures often precludes direct visualization, simple techniques ...

Diverticulum is a medical term that refers to an abnormal, pouch-like structure. Diverticula can form in nearly all areas of the digestive tract. When a pouch forms at the junction of the pharynx and ...

One of the defining characteristics of chordates and other deuterostomes is the presence of gill slits, which first appeared in the acorn worm and persist vestigially in the human embryo. An ...

Silvia Franceschi, Fabio Levi, Ettore Conti, Renato Talamini, Eva Negri, Luigino Dal Maso, Peter Boyle, Adriano Decarli and Carlo La Vecchia Objective: To explore the role of energy and macronutrients ...

Sword swallowing is risky. That much should be obvious. But people manage to make a career out of putting blades down their throats, so, at some level of skill, swallowing a sword becomes calculated ...

Holding back a sneeze by pinching your nose while keeping your mouth closed may cause physical injury, doctors writing in the journal BMJ Case Reports have reaffirmed. In one such documented case, an ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Independent sucking/swallowing pharynges, as found in members of at least ten animal phyla, are pharynges that are opened by muscles that are ...