See Also: pharyngeal bursa(medicine)
pharyngeal branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery(medicine)
pharyngeal(dictionary)
Pharyngeal(health)
Pharyngeal(medicine)
pharyngeal cartilages(medicine)
pharyngeal diseases(medicine)
pharyngeal glands(medicine)
pharyngeal grooves(medicine)
pharyngeal space(medicine)

archangel (iou) and pharyngeal bursa (medicine)


archangel (iou)



archangel noun. Also (esp. in titles) Archangel. OE.
[Anglo-Norman archangele from ecclesiastical Latin archangelus from ecclesiastical Greek arkhaggelos, from Greek arkhi- ARCH- + aggelos (see ANGEL).]
An angel of the highest rank; a member of the eighth order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, ranking directly below the principalities and above the angels (usu. in pl.). OE.
Any of various dead-nettles (genus Lamium and allied plants); esp. (more fully yellow archangel) Lamiastrum galeobdolon, a yellow-flowered woodland plant of Europe and western Asia. LME.
archan'gelic adjective of, pertaining to, or resembling archangels; of the Nature of an archangel: LME.
archan'gelical adjective = archangelic M17.

pharyngeal bursa (medicine)


pharyngeal bursa
<anatomy> A cystic notochordal remnant found inconstantly in the posterior wall of the nasopharynx at the lower end of the pharyngeal tonsil.

Synonym: bursa pharyngea, Luschka's bursa, Tornwaldt's cyst.