Used in a Sentence

pharyngeal

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pharyngeal.

Editorial note

It also looks like Sanskrit doesn't have any uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal consonants, and no velar or post-velar fricatives.

Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

(phonetics) Ellipsis of pharyngeal consonant (“a sound that is articulated with the pharynx”).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pharyngeal gathered in one view.

noun

(phonetics) Ellipsis of pharyngeal consonant (“a sound that is articulated with the pharynx”).

adjective

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pharynx.

adjective

(phonetics) Articulated with the pharynx; a term usually describing a consonant which is articulated by the rear area of the tongue being raised to below the region between the uvula and the pharyngeal wall. The term cannot apply to a plosive or stop consonant.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pharyngeal.

noun

(phonetics) Ellipsis of pharyngeal consonant (“a sound that is articulated with the pharynx”).

adjective

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pharynx.

adjective

(phonetics) Articulated with the pharynx; a term usually describing a consonant which is articulated by the rear area of the tongue being raised to below the region between the uvula and the pharyngeal wall. The term cannot apply to a plosive or stop consonant.

Example sentences

1

It also looks like Sanskrit doesn't have any uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal consonants, and no velar or post-velar fricatives.

2

There's evidence it may also reduce snoring and sleep apnea by strengthening the pharyngeal muscles[1].

3

It's basically caused by tongue fat, pharyngeal/neck fat and visceral/fat in the upper belly.

4

Hebrew also lost the voiceless pharyngeal fricative (Heth/ح) which iirc can only be pronounced by Mizrahi Jews (aka of Jewish Arab origin).

5

I got my (pharyngeal) tonsil removed without anaesthesia, in 2001 I think, as a kid, in the Czech Republic.

6

I don't think Amharic has a uvular ejective /q'/, nor the uvular stop or pharyngeal consonants.

7

They are already causing an increase in pharyngeal cancer.

8

Circumferential pharyngeal wall collapse in the Nasopharynx and Oropharynx.

9

The Phoenician script used single symbols to represent consonants, including the glottal stop (and some pharyngeal consonant that would likely be subject to a similar process, iirc).

10

It stops replication in the nasal pharyngeal passages.

11

Consistent data from all identified cohort and case-control studies indicate a significantly elevated risk for oral and pharyngeal cancer associated with cigar use, with evidence of a dose-dependent relation.

12

On its way up it gives off fibres to the mucous membrane and muscular coating of the esophagus and similarly for the trachea, and then some pharyngeal filaments before reaching most of the laryngeal muscles (See Gray's Anatomy 1980).

Quote examples

1

The increase in pharyngeal cancers may come from oral HPV infections specifically, not "libertine sexual habits" per se.

2

My dad's old college roommate is a bruxism expert and wrote to me: "Bruxism is the body's attempt to dilate pharyngeal muscles to open the airway and facilitate breathing.

3

"Pharyngeal Gonorrhea" is actually where most of these drug resistant strains have been found, at least in the UK (can dredge it up somewhere but I read this recently when this was in the news).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pharyngeal in a sentence?

It also looks like Sanskrit doesn't have any uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal consonants, and no velar or post-velar fricatives.

What does pharyngeal mean?

(phonetics) Ellipsis of pharyngeal consonant (“a sound that is articulated with the pharynx”).

What part of speech is pharyngeal?

pharyngeal is commonly used as noun, adjective.