fauces
pronunciation
How to pronounce fauces in British English:
UK ['fɔ:si:z]
How to pronounce fauces in American English:
US ['fɔsiz]
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- Noun:
- the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx
Word Origin
- fauces (n.)
- "throat, gullet," 1540s, from Latin fauces "throat, gullet." Related: Faucal; faucial.
Example
- 1. Inter fauces terrarum across the mouth of the river ;
- 2. The branch of medicine that studies and treats the larynx , pharynx , and fauces .
- 3. The arching surface of the lens body is specially designed according to the characteristics of the mouth & fauces dissection , which can meet the intubatton requirement for those patients , who got a high pharynx .
- 4. Dispelling and examining it , fauces hyperaemia , spleen turgescence and lung hyperaemia .