Ejemplos de uso de pharynx
1. He went on to describe how one swallower had lacerated his pharynx as he tried to swallow a curved sabre.
2. Smoking causes not only lung cancer but also other kinds of cancer such as cancer of the mouth, voice box (larynx), throat (pharynx), esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, liver, cervix, stomach, colon and rectum, and leukemia.
3. In this respect humans are unique among air–breathing vertebrates: because our tongue and larynx lie so low in our neck and our pharynx is so long, we can turn our tongue and vocal tract into a huge variety of different, sound–altering lengths and shapes – the prerequisite of speech.
4. Socially deprived areas in the north of England and central Scotland have a higher than average occurrence and death rate for cancers of the lung, lip, mouth and pharynx, according to a "cancer atlas" published by the Office for National Statistics.