fauces

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

In localities where diphtheria is endemic, as in New York City and Paris, scarlet fever is often complicated by a pseudo-membranous inflammation of the fauces and air-passages.

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