I could find, indeed, but one vulnerable point, and that, lying in a personal peculiarity, arising, perhaps, from constitutional disease, would have been spared by any antagonist less at his wit's end than myself; -- my rival had a weakness in the faucal or guttural organs, which precluded him from raising his voice at any time above a very low whisper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

This position, known as “faucal, ” is not common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3. The Sounds of Language] Reference