a. [f. Gr. ἐπί upon + φάρυγξ, φάρυγγ-ος + -(E)AL.] Situated above the pharynx.

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1871.  Huxley, Anat. Vert., iii. 157. The uppermost articulations [of the branchial arches] … form the epipharyngeal bones.

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