oropharyngeal

1. 1.

   of or relating to or located near the oropharynx

Questions about oropharyngeal

What does oropharyngeal mean?

oropharyngeal means "of or relating to or located near the oropharynx".

How many syllables are in oropharyngeal?

oropharyngeal has 6 syllables: o-ro-pha-ryn-ge-al. The stress falls on "ryn".

Is oropharyngeal a common word?

oropharyngeal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.