Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of planarians or Rhabdocœla having a pharynx: distinguished from
Apharyngea .
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Examples
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The ascending pharyngeal artery (a. pharyngea ascendens) (Fig. 513), the smallest branch of the external carotid, is a long, slender vessel, deeply seated in the neck, beneath the other branches of the external carotid and under the Stylopharyngeus.
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; and when the summit of the gullet is much inflamed along with the tonsil, it may be called tonsillitis pharyngea, as described in Dr. Cullen's Nosologia, Genus
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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