Swollen region of the anterior foregut, posterior to the mouth and anterior to the liver; its walls form the jaws and gills. Kimmel et al, 1995.|The part of the vertebrate alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus.nThe pharynx of Nematodes is an efficient pump and forces food into the intestines.|The part of the stomodeum between the mouth and the oesophagus. (Experimental Factor Ontology, EFO_0000836)
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14 genes co-occuring with the biological term pharynx in literature-supported statements describing functions of genes from the GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations dataset.