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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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 fauces is the opening at the connection between the oral cavity and the oropharynx.
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Stimulation of either side of the fauces should elicit an equivalent response.
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He had no decided redness of the fauces, though it was perhaps slightly flushed.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various