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fauces

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fau·ces  (fôsz)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
The passage from the back of the mouth to the pharynx, bounded by the soft palate, the base of the tongue, and the palatine arches.

[Middle English, from Latin faucs.]

faucal (-kl), faucial (-shl) adj.

fauces [ˈfɔːsiːz]
n pl -ces
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Anatomy the area between the cavity of the mouth and the pharynx, including the surrounding tissues
[from Latin: throat]
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Noun1.fauces - the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx
passageway, passage - a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages"


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The Mallampati classification score was 1 when the protruded tongue did not prevent visualization of the soft palate, fauces, uvula and tonsillar pillars.
in children, characterized by whitish spots and ulcers on the membranes of the mouth, fauces, etc.
Just like the mistletoe which often in the woods in the cold of winter puts out new leaves, nourished by a tree not its own, entwining the smooth trunk with its yellow growth, such was the vision of the leafy gold and the shady ilex, so rustled the foil in the gentle breeze: inde ubi venere ad fauces grave olentis Averni, / tollunt se celeres liquidumque per aera lapsae / sedibus optatis geminae super arbore sidunt, / discolor unde auri per ramos aura refulsit.
 
 
 
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