fauces
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Further testing of vagus motor function has the patient repeating consonant sounds that require movement of the muscles around the fauces.
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The second region is the oropharynx, which is continuous with the nasopharynx and is connected to the oral cavity at the fauces.
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Stimulation of either side of the fauces should elicit an equivalent response.
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Toward the front, the palatoglossal arch lies next to the base of the tongue; behind it, the palatopharyngeal arch forms the superior and lateral margins of the fauces.
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When the uvula takes part in the process the swelling is, as a rule, more marked than when the remaining parts of the fauces only are implicated.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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