Through the lowering of the pillars of the fauces, which is the same as raising the soft palate, the outflowing breath is divided into two parts. From Wordnik.com. [How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]] Reference
With each moment the atrium was filled more and more; in corridors, called "fauces," voices were heard calling in various languages. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
The Gracehoper feared he would mixplace his fauces. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Tickling the fauces with a feather may excite vomiting. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
These prominent arches and their fellows are named the pillars of the fauces. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Quòd si in fauces penetrauerit, etiam mori: idque maximè humani ieiuni oris. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
Qu騞 si in fauces penetrauerit, etiam mori: idque maxim� humani ieiuni oris. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
Instrumental measures in reference to the fauces, tonsils, oesophagus, and lungs. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
If we open the mouth before a mirror we see through the fauces the rear wall of the pharynx. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The tongue gathers it up and forces it backwards between the pillars of the fauces into the pharynx. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The syrup should be used for inflammation of the tonsils; the gargle for inflammation of the fauces or pharynx. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference
The sense of taste is located chiefly in the tongue, but may also be referred even to the regions of the fauces. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Great swelling of the fauces and dysphagia persisted for some days after the injury, and there was considerable hæmorrhage. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
The fauces in the case of smaller atriums should be two thirds, and in the case of larger one half the width of the tablinum. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
In certain cases there was much disorder, and tumors about the fauces, and inflammations of the tongue, and abscesses about the teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
To the right of the tablinum is the fauces, and on each side of the atrium the alæ are seen, partly shut off, like the tablinum, by handsome draperies. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Between the velum palati, V, and the root of the tongue, we may readily discern, when the jaws are open, two ridges of arching form, 5, 6, on either side of the fauces. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Of the private apartments the first to be mentioned is the peristyle, which usually lay behind the atrium, and communicated with it both through the tablinum and by fauces. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Proximorum fauces aperuit primus omnium Constantinus. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2] Reference
Wolff saw an example associated with hemorrhage from the fauces. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
It was said that he could contract at will both pillars of the fauces. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
It may, like any other artery, be wounded, especially from the fauces. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference
His voice had become guttural, but examination of the fauces was negative. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Schrader speaks of a person from whose mouth and fauces after a debauch issued fire. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Extremely emaciated; his tongue and fauces covered with apthous crusts, and his appetite gone. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference
As he spoke he pressed his thumb against the fauces of the serpent, until its mouth stood wide open. From Wordnik.com. [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference
It acts in a few minutes and its effect may be hastened by giving tepid water or tickling the fauces. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
A few grains of powder of bark frequently put into the mouth, and gradually diffused over the fauces. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
They often crawl into the fauces, noses, and stomachs of human beings, where they produce dreadful sufferings and even death. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
The odor is rather unpleasant, the taste sweetish and then acrid, nauseous, persistent, exciting the saliva and irritating the fauces. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
But when along with diminished thirst, the fauces and tongue are dry, this deficiency may be regarded as a morbid and dangerous symptom. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
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