fauces

NOUN
  1. the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx
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  • About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
  • On the fame day, or the day following, fuch parts of the fauces as at firft feemed to be of a deeper colour than the reft, turned white, afii-coloured, or black: this was not occafioned by any cruft or matter fuper - induced upon the parts, but proceeded from a gangrenous colliquation of them, the fub* ftance itfelf being mortified. A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill
  • 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. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
  • With each moment the atrium was filled more and more; in corridors, called "fauces," voices were heard calling in various languages. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
  • The fauces were not very irritable, nor were they troubled with any saltish humors; but there were viscid, white, liquid, frothy, and copious defluxions from the head. Of The Epidemics
  • Or perhaps sometimes for the purpose of diffusing a part of it over the dry membranes of the fauces and pharinx; in the same manner as tears are diffused over the cornea of the eye by the act of nictitation to clean or moisten it. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • The fauces were not very irritable, nor were they troubled with any saltish humors; but there were viscid, white, liquid, frothy, and copious defluxions from the head. Of The Epidemics
  • In a person affected with fever, when there is no swelling in the fauces, should suffocation suddenly come on, and the patient not be able to swallow, except with difficulty, it is a mortal symptom. Aphorisms
  • [3711] Num tibi cum fauces urit sitis, aurea quaeris Anatomy of Melancholy
  • If a person laboring under a fever, without any swelling in the fauces, be seized with a sense of suffocation suddenly, it is a mortal symptom. Aphorisms
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