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 fauces is the opening at the connection between the oral cavity and the oropharynx.

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A palatine tonsil is one of a pair of structures located laterally in the oropharynx in the area of the fauces.

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If the examiner moves the tongue depressor to contact the lateral wall of the fauces, this should elicit the gag reflex.

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The characteristic objective symptom of the latter disease is the presence of membrane on the reddened mucous membrane of the fauces, which, usually, is markedly injected over all or part of the surface.

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