Definition of "nasopharyngeal" []

• Of or pertaining to the nose and the pharynx (adjective)
• Of or pertaining to the nasopharynx (adjective)

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• "Dr. David Dolowitz pioneered a cutting-edge medical procedure called nasopharyngeal radium irradiation."
• "Indigenous populations appear predisposed to cancers such as nasopharyngeal and salivary gland cancer [106]."
• "The team has since moved on to try to establish if these gene variants may be linked to the tendency among certain groups of Chinese to develop particular diseases -- such as nasopharyngeal cancer, which is more prevalent among southern Chinese, but not Chinese in northern provinces."