{"term":{"id":"11086","title":"pharynx","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - pharynx","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.11086","code":"11086","status":"current","mentioned":"<em>mentioned<\/em>: laryngopharynx, nasopharynx, oropharynx","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Part of the digestive tube lying between the esophagus (below) and the mouth and nasal cavity (above and anterior).","notes":{"1":"The pharynx is subdivided into the nasopharynx lying at the base of the nasal cavity, the oropharynx behind the mouth, and the laryngopharynx posterior to the larynx."},"links":[{"term":"nasal","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10994"}],"sources":["PAC, 2016, 88, 713. 'Glossary of terms used in developmental and reproductive toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 792 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-1202)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11086\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11086\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11086\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'pharynx' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.11086","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-10T10:33:03+00:00"}}