Medical Dictionary
pharyngeal pouch
noun
Medical Definition of PHARYNGEAL POUCH
: any of a series of evaginations of ectoderm on either side of the pharynx that meet the corresponding external furrows and give rise to the branchial clefts of the vertebrate embryo
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