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retropharyngeal

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Situated or occurring behind the pharynx.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated behind the pharynx.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy, medicine Located behind the pharynx.

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Examples

  • Watch - he'll be the one with the retropharyngeal abscess that turns into mediastinitis.

    The Hypochondriac 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • I finally, finally got to show him how to cut a deer's throat to extract the retropharyngeal lymph nodes ...

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008

  • Don't have a picture, but while trying to cut out a retropharyngeal lymph node on a gal's deer, I grabbed hold of one of the nearby nasal-pharynx pockets instead.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

  • But yeah, I've still got it immediately to the south, east, and northeast, so we'll be pulling retropharyngeal lymph nodes again this fall.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006

  • So today, after checking to make sure the local warden hadn't already pulled retropharyngeal nodes from this poor elk, I headed north to do so.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006

  • A couple of our fish guys who had volunteered to help man the station, and help cut deer throats to pull retropharyngeal lymph nodes for testing for chronic wasting disease.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006

  • Did extract a couple retropharyngeal lymph nodes from a deer's neck.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005

  • Drag out the collection kit and cut its throat and pull out retropharyngeal lymph nodes for CWD samples.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005

  • Deer seasons north of town opened today, which meant it was time to start cutting deer throats and extracting their retropharyngeal lymph nodes for testing for chronic wasting disease.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005

  • With throats cut and retropharyngeal lymph nodes collected from about forty of them.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

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