oropharynx

The portion of the pharynx that lies between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the oropharynx is

The portion of the pharynx that lies between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the oropharynx is

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

What the oropharynx connects to

The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, anatomical conduit and chordate pharynx, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the oropharynx. 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 oral part of pharynx, mesopharynx and pars oralis pharyngis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001729, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, anatomical conduit, chordate pharynx and digestive system.
• A kind of: organ part.
• contains: epithelium of oropharynx, fauces, lateral wall of oropharynx, lumen of oropharynx, mucosa of oropharynx and oropharyngeal gland, and 1 more.
• contributes to morphology of: chordate pharynx.

Questions

Where is the oropharynx?

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

What does the oropharynx connect to?

Part of: alimentary part of gastrointestinal system, anatomical conduit, chordate pharynx and digestive system.

Is the oropharynx 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.