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.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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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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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Many have no cough whatever, while others have a slight cough, due to the fact that the inflammation, of a catarrhal form, has extended from the fauces to the surface of the glottis.

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