Crossword-Solution: PHARYNGO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

There are five branchia[l] arches, made up pharyngo-, epi- and cerato-branchials, and the ventral elements fuse in the middle line to form a common plate of cartilage.

Palpation of the neck, and particularly of the larynx and trachea, should be carried out in all cases presenting the symptoms described; and as bearing on the question of operation, enlargement of the cervical lymph glands and of the thyreoid should be looked for; cancer of the thyreoid is sometimes secondary to disease at the pharyngo-œsophageal junction.

The wide distribution of these pharyngo-laryngo-esophago-pulmano-cardio-gastric nerves gives ample opportunity for reflexes.

Bard's experience was very extensive; he saw membranous pharyngitis, laryngitis, and pharyngo-laryngitis; he speaks of the membrane as met upon the skin, of paralysis of the muscles of deglutition and of the larynx, and likewise of paralysis of the lower extremities, as sequelae.

Different varieties of this tic exist, according as the air swallowed is derived from the exterior or from the lung, and depending on its penetration into the stomach or simply into the pharyngo-œsophageal canal; and further, the physiological mechanism of the condition varies with them.