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Definition of Fauces

1. Noun. The passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx.

Definition of Fauces

1. n. pl. The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

Definition of Fauces

1. the passage from the mouth to the pharynx [n]

Medical Definition of Fauces

1. 1. The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils. 2. The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc. 3. That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Fauces

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1855)
"Under the name of fauces, are included the velum pendulum, ... Nor shall I treat here of those forms of inflammation of the fauces which occur as attendants ..."

2. Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine : a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1900)
"The throat, or fauces,—that is, the parts at the back of the mouth which are brought into ... The most common affections of the fauces are inflammation and ..."

3. Medical diagnosis: A Manual of Clinical Methods by John James Graham Brown (1884)
"fauces.—To examine the fauces the patient must be made to open his mouth in such a position that strong light falls on the back of the throat. ..."

4. Gallus: Or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus. With Notes and Excursuses by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1903)
"[The only correct idea of the fauces is, that they were narrow passages or corridors beside the tablinum (although Becker, in his posthumous Papers, ..."

5. Gallus ; Or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus: With Notes and Excursuses by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1891)
"WHAT, or rather where, the fauces were, is a point on which there exists great diversity of opinion, and upon which we know next to nothing. ..."

6. Anatomy and Histology of the Mouth and Teeth by Isaac Norman Broomell, Philipp Fischelis (1917)
"In this description all that space bounded anteriorly by the lips, posteriorly by the soft palate and pillars of the fauces, and laterally ay the cheeks, ..."

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