Pharyngeal pouch

System Digestive
SNOMED CT 34674002

Pharyngeal pouch

Definition

An internal pocketing of pharyngeal endoderm that contacts a region of ectoderm (a pharyngeal cleft) and interdigitates in the anterior and posterior directions with the pharyngeal arches.

Also known as branchial pouch, visceral pouch — per UBERON

The Pharyngeal pouch is a part of the Digestive.

Also identified as