fauces
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Stimulation of either side of the fauces should elicit an equivalent response.
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.
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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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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
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