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.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

This is followed by inspection, with the aid of a tongue depressor, of the back of the mouth, or the opening of the oral cavity into the pharynx known as the fauces.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The main open area of the mouth, or oral cavity proper, runs from the gums and teeth to the fauces.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Whether malaria passes through the respiratory apparatus directly into the circulation, or is lodged upon the fauces and absorbed through some other surface, is not clearly ascertainable.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various