Throat (body part)

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The word throat ( Latin gula or iugulum ) denotes the following body parts, since the German language (as with the words "neck" and "breast") does not differentiate between outside and inside:

  1. the front, the larynx (Greek "larynx") and throat (Greek "pharynx") enclosing the outer part of the neck under the chin ,
  2. the upper parts of the windpipe (gr. "trachea") and esophagus (gr. -lat. " esophagus ") and the larynx located inside the neck .

Other terms for throat (in both senses of the word) are Gurgel Strosse ( West Middle High German ) and collar (not in use today).

The term throat is used not only in humans, but also in some cases in higher vertebrates.

etymology

Kehle is a noun restricted to West Germanic .

  1. Old High German kela
  2. Middle High German kel (e)
  3. dutch keel
  4. old English ceole

The West Germanic group of words goes back to a root gel - "devour" with the related words . In the old Irish language gelid means "devour, devour, eat". The Latin gula "throat, esophagus" is based on the secondary form guel- . Like the throat formed to loop , the word throat has also developed the meaning “gorge, deepening”. (See above, meaning 2.).

anatomy

While in the older anatomical works the throat as the front neck region was contrasted with the neck as the back neck region, the term is no longer precisely defined in modern anatomy. Here the neck is subdivided into an anterior, lateral and posterior cervical region ( regio cervicalis anterior, lateralis et posterior , in veterinary anatomy regio colli anterior, lateralis et posterior ). The upper part of the front neck region largely corresponds to the throat in the popular sense. The anterior cervical region is further subdivided into the lower jaw triangle ( Trigonum submandibulare ), the child triangle ( Trigonum submentale ), the carotid triangle ( Trigonum caroticum ) and the muscle triangle ( Trigonum musculare sive omotracheale ). The anterior neck region is laterally bounded by the sternocleidomastoid muscle .

See also: back of the knee

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c throat. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ↑ a b Joachim Heinrich Campe : Dictionary of the German language. Reprographic reprint. Olms 1969-1970 = 1807-1813.
  3. ↑ DUDEN The dictionary of synonyms. Dudenverlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-411-04086-5 .
  4. ↑ Gargle. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 9 : Greander gymnastics - (IV, 1st section, part 6). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1935 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  5. ↑ Stope. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 20 : Strom – Szische - (X, 4th section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1942 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  6. ↑ collar. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  7. ↑ DUDEN German universal dictionary. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-05506-7 , p. 942.
  8. ↑ DUDEN The dictionary of origin. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-04074-2 , p. 400.
  9. ^ EH Weber: Handbook of the anatomy of the human body . 1833, p. 6.
  10. ↑ F.-V. Salomon, H. Geyer, U. Gille (ed.): Anatomy for veterinary medicine. 2., ext. Edition. Enke, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8304-1075-1 , p. 10.
  11. ^ A b T. H. Schiebler: Anatomy: Histology, history of development, macroscopic and microscopic anatomy, topography. 9th edition. Springer-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-540-26525-2 , p. 445.