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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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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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.
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The main open area of the mouth, or oral cavity proper, runs from the gums and teeth to the fauces.
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Moreover, in localities where diphtheria occurs, if this malady complicate scarlet fever, it is apt to affect the nostrils at the same time that the fauces are invaded.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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