Pharyngeal Disease:

Terms Related to Pharyngeal Disease

• Palatopharyngeal Incompetence

  Failure of the soft palate to reach the posterior pharyngeal wall. It may be caused by cleft palate surgery, palatal or pharyngeal abnormalities or injury, ...

• Ultimobranchial Body

  A diverticulum from the fourth pharyngeal pouch of an embryo, regarded by some as a rudimentary fifth pharyngeal pouch and by others as a lateral ...

• Nasopharyngeal Disease

  General or unspecified diseases of the nasopharynx.

• Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis

  A disease characterized by the chronic, progressive spread of lesions from New World cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by species of the L. braziliensis complex to the ...

• Pharyngeal Neoplasm

  Tumors or cancer of the PHARYNX.

• Pharyngeal Diverticula

  A diverticulum at the upper end of the esophagus through the cricopharyngeal muscle.