nasopharynx
The section of the pharynx that lies above the soft palate. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the nasopharynx is
The section of the pharynx that lies above the soft palate. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the nasopharynx is
It sits within the respiratory and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the nasopharynx connects to
The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of chordate pharynx and upper respiratory tract.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the nasopharynx. 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 nasal part of pharynx, rhinopharynx, Nasenrachenraum, epipharynx and pars nasalis pharyngis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001728, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: chordate pharynx and upper respiratory tract.
- A kind of: proximo-distal subdivision of respiratory tract.
- contains: epithelium of nasopharynx, lateral wall of nasopharynx, lumen of nasopharynx, mucosa of nasopharynx, nasal-associated lymphoid tissue and nasopharyngeal gland, and 3 more.
- contributes to morphology of: chordate pharynx.
- connects: posterior nasal aperture.
Questions
Where is the nasopharynx?
It sits within the respiratory and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the nasopharynx connect to?
Part of: chordate pharynx and upper respiratory tract.
Is the nasopharynx 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.