Meanings of fauce (fauces) in English

Similar elevations are sometimes seen on the posterior pillars of the fauces.

His voice had become guttural, but examination of the fauces was negative.

It may, like any other artery, be wounded, especially from the fauces.

Influenza, causing adhesions of the posterior pillars of the fauces, has given rise to anosmia.

Tickling the fauces with a feather may excite vomiting.

Schrader speaks of a person from whose mouth and fauces after a debauch issued fire.

His mouth is now carefully examined, and two fingers being inserted, scoop round the fauces.

There was a narrow passage between the atrium and the peristylium; this was called the fauces.

Sore Throat.-Thiswe find on the pillars of the fauces, uvula, tonsils, and pharynx, reddened and inflamed.

Honey and water is used as a gargle and to relieve cough, dryness of the mouth and fauces.

Autenreith mentions the vibrations of a loud noise tickling the fauces to such an extent as to provoke vomiting.

Sometimes it is very severe, and a membrane comes on one or both tonsils and pillars of the fauces.

The raising and lowering of the soft palate, and the corresponding lowering and raising of the pillars of the fauces.

The surface is covered with a deposit and the pillars of the fauces, uvula and pharynx may all be inflamed.

Ventriloquists must not be confounded with persons who by means of skilful mechanisms, creatures with movable fauces, etc., imitate ventriloquism.

If the disease runs on, in a few days the membrane covers the tonsils and pillars of the fauces, often the uvula.