chordate pharynx

A portion of the respiratory and digestive tracts; its distal limit is the superior part of the esophagus and it connects the nasal and oral cavities with the esophagus and larynx; it contains the valleculae and the pyriform recesses; its upper limits are the nasal cavity and cranial base.[FEED]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the chordate pharynx is

A portion of the respiratory and digestive tracts; its distal limit is the superior part of the esophagus and it connects the nasal and oral cavities with the esophagus and larynx; it contains the valleculae and the pyriform recesses; its upper limits are the nasal cavity and cranial base.[FEED]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the chordate pharynx is

It sits within the respiratory and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the chordate pharynx connects to

The atlas records 35 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of respiratory system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the chordate pharynx. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as pharynx. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001042, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: respiratory system.
• A kind of: subdivision of digestive tract.
• Adjacent to: palatoglossal arch.
• contains: epithelium of laryngopharynx, epithelium of nasopharynx, epithelium of oropharynx, hypopharynx, nasopharynx and oropharynx, and 13 more.
• flows to: larynx, esophagus, nasal cavity and oral cavity.
• contributes to morphology of: hypopharynx, nasopharynx and oropharynx.
• overlaps: buccopharyngeal membrane and musculature of pharynx.
• develops into: foramen cecum of tongue and maxillary artery.

Questions

Where is the chordate pharynx?

It sits within the respiratory and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the chordate pharynx connect to?

Part of: respiratory system.

Is the chordate pharynx the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.