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Overlay comprising head contour, skull, anterior cervical vertebrae, hyoid apparatus, palatinal and tympanic pharyngeal pouches, and larynx of an adult male Mongolian gazelle illustrating relative topographic positions. The unpaired palatinal pharyngeal pouch, a ventromedian sac of the soft palate, is intercalated between the root of the tongue and the epiglottis.
