Fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the palate.
1The uvula is bifurcated, and the two divisions sometimes act independently.
2Pretty girl, Helen, but showing your uvula to the audience is not on.
3The uvula is interesting because, besides man, it is only found in the ape.
4Six airway models were developed with two uvula kinematics and three pharynx constriction levels.
5Chronic enlargement or elongation of the uvula, or palate, as shown at B, Fig.
6The uvula, the pillars of the palate, and the tonsils are parts of the structure.
7It may involve not only the hard palate, but also the soft palate and uvula.
8The tonsils were enlarged and the uvula was long.
9Ogle records instances of congenital absence of the uvula.
10I was lucky none of the kids kicked their soccer ball into my exposed uvula.
11My breath caught somewhere between my uvula and lungs.
12Her father, carrying the same mutation, showed bifid uvula with a pit on his lower lip.
13Sore Throat.-Thiswe find on the pillars of the fauces, uvula, tonsils, and pharynx, reddened and inflamed.
14The presence of mild craniofacial abnormalities including hypertelorism and abnormal uvula may aid the recognition of this syndrome.
15The uvula was bitten, not torn.
16I was born with a cleft palate, a split uvula and was a very "floppy" baby.