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Pharynx

In vertebrates, a tube leading from nose and mouth to the larynx and esophagus; conducts air during breathing and food during breathing and food during swallowing; the throat; it is also used in invertebrates (flatworms) to describe a short tube connecting the mouth and intestines.

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