means The pharynx is the muscular tube behind your nose and mouth that channels both air toward the lungs and food toward the esophagus.

from From the Greek 'pharynx,' meaning throat or windpipe — the same root that gives us 'pharyngeal' and a whole anatomical vocabulary. The Greeks named the body part with a word that simply meant the gullet, and medical Latin carried it straight through into the language of dissection, where it has stayed, unembellished, ever since.