hypopharyngealadj.
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a. Anatomy. Situated beneath, or in the lower part of, the pharynx.
b. Entomology. Belonging to the hypopharynx.
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1856 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca iii. 346 Branchiae consisting of two bands stretched across the interior, one above (epi) and one below (hypopharyngeal).
1871 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Vertebrated Animals 136 The posterior parts [of branchial arches] are single bones..called hypopharyngeal bones.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals x. 602 The hypopharyngeal folds.
c. as n. (plural) = Hypopharyngeal bones.
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