Word: pharynx
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...injected the germs into a 25-year-old woman. She developed scarlet fever. The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week's Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found the specific hemolytic streptococcus in the mucous membranes of the infected pharynx,* and from it developed a specific immunizing antitoxin...
...Back of the fauces (narrow, rear part of mouth) is the pharynx. Into the pharynx enter (from above) the nostrils and eustachian tubes. From below enter (in front) the larynx (top part of the trachea, or breathing tube), and (in back) the esophagus or food tube. In eating or drinking the epiglottis, a saddle-shaped piece of cartilage at the root of the tongue, flaps down to cover the larynx and windpipe. The term "throat" includes fauces and pharynx; the term "gullet" includes pharynx and esophagus.† 5,685 U. S. cases reported last week...
...tube beginning at the lower termination of the pharynx, passing through the neck and chest behind the windpipe to join the stomach; the esophagus...