piriform recess/fossa/sinus

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Introduction

A recess in the anterolateral wall of the nasopharynx on each side of the vestibule of the larynx separated from it by the aryepiglottic folds.

More general terms

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.