10476 IUPAC Gold Book - buccopharyngeal membrane 10.1351/goldbook.10476 10476 current synonym: oropharyngeal membrane 1 Membrane present in fetal life that separates the nasal cavities from the pharynx. Membrane https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11555 fetal https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10718 nasal https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10994 pharynx https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11086 PAC, 2016, 88, 713. 'Glossary of terms used in developmental and reproductive toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 731 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-1202) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10476/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10476/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10476/plain Citation: 'buccopharyngeal membrane' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10476 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-13T11:17:04+00:00