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throat
1. The anterior (front) portion of the neck beginning at the back of the mouth, consisting anatomically of the pharynx and larynx.

The throat contains the trachea and a portion of the esophagus.

2. The part of the airway and digestive tract between the mouth and both the esophagus and the windpipe.
3. The front part of the neck of an animal or human being.
4. A narrow part or passage that resembles the throat in shape or function of both a human or an animal.
This entry is located in the following unit: Neck and Throat (page 1)
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(Latin: neck; head-joint, throat)
(Greek: gullet, throat [passage from the mouth to the stomach], that which carries food; the path along which food travels from the mouth to the stomach)
(Latin: throat)
(Greek > Modern Latin: throat, upper part of the windpipe; the vocal-chord area of the throat; the musculocartilaginous structure below the tongue root and hyoid bone and above the trachea)
(Greek: mucus; a protective secretion from the mucous membranes in the nose, throat, and lungs; a thick fluid produced by the linings of some tissues of the body and is secreted as a protective lubricant coating by cells and glands of the mucous membranes)
(Greek: neck, throat, cervix)
(Greek: windpipe or one of the two large branches of the trachea, the tube in air-breathing vertebrates that conducts air from the throat to the bronchi, strengthened by incomplete rings of cartilage)
(One of the body's busiest passage ways and essential to a person's well being)
(Greek: pharynx [the alimentary canal between the palate and the esophagus]; part of the neck or throat)