(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.
(n.pl.) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
(n.pl.) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.
(pl. ) of Faux
Example Sentences:
(1) The lesions of acute feline calicivirus infection are of a transient vesiculo-ulcerative nature and involve, to varying degrees, the palate, tongue, gingiva, lips, nasal philtrum, and oral fauces.
(2) Frequently occurring colonization of hemolytic streptococcus in the fauces and the rise of the ASL-O titer in the blood serum seen in patients with the hematuric form of glomerulonephritis, its dependence on the disease activity suggest the streptococcal etiology in patients with that form in contrast to those with the nephrotic form.
(3) The carriage of opportunistic microorganisms in the fauces and nose of the neonates had decreased substantially by the time of the discharge from the maternity home, while the incidence of pyo-inflammatory diseases had also reduced among them.
(4) Simple algorithms and a computer program are provided for estimating Fcomp, FAUC, td, Fmax, and other parameters relevant to DDA for drugs that exhibit a linear polyexponential bolus response.
(5) Material obtained from the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract (the anterior section of the nasal cavity, the fauces) in young children, both healthy and suffering with different forms of acute pneumonia, has been analyzed with due regard to the structure of the microflora, its specific composition and the size of populations formed by different species constituting the microflora.
(6) The existence of naturally infected Akodon azarae, both within and outside the endemic area, as well as the finding that other species, ecologically and phylogenetically related to the main reservoirs, such as Akodon molinae and Calomys callidus, can experimentally develop persistent infections with virus shedding through fauces, suggest a potential role for these cricetids as alternative reservoirs.
(7) In 16 persons, Yersinia might be cultivated from the different biological media: blood, feces, urine, fauces, and synovial fluid.
(8) Estimates of Ecomp, FAUC, td, and Fmax are presented for several drugs.
(9) The carriership of Staphylococcus aureus in the fauces occurring in the presence of the decreased characteristics of local defence and phagocytic system of the newborn favours an increase of the disease incidence in the babies as well as the formation of the chronic foci of infection in the future.
(10) Changes in microflora of the urine, feces, blood, fauces, vagina, and resected tissues in the course of antituberculous therapy were studied.
(11) associated with neurovegetal symptomatology ascribable to the active principles contained in the preparation used: mydriasis, disturbances in visual accomodation, dryness of the fauces.
(12) The compounded peripheral bioavailability, F comp, is the ratio between the total compounded amount of drug transferred to the peripheral system and the injected dose, D. The AUC peripheral bioavailability, FAUC, is the ratio between the area under the amount vs. time curves for the peripheral system and the sampling compartment.
(13) Clinical, microbiological and immunological examinations were made of ailing children with localized (fauces) and spread (fauces, skin, intestine) staphylococcal lesions.
(14) Toxic patterns of diphtheria of the fauces in adults are characterized by laryngeal lesions which considerably deteriorate the disease prognosis.
(15) Pseudosarcoma is a malignant, polypoid tumour which has been described in the oesophagus, mouth, fauces and larynx.
(16) Over 60 percent of the neonates were discharged from the maternity home with a normally formed intestinal microflora, 60 percent had normal microflora in the fauces, 80 percent in the nose, and 70 percent of the neonates demonstrated normal skin microflora.
(17) Group B streptococci were found to colonize different loci in newborns (the fauces, the nose, the umbilical cord, the ears, feces) and their mothers (the fauces, the vagina, the perianal fold, milk, the skin around the nipples, amniotic fluid, the umbilical cord).
(18) In 1902, Polya and von Navratil published a paper in German describing lymphatic drainage of buccal mucosa, alveolus, fauces, and lips.
(19) The pigs used a second pump mechanism at the base of the tongue to transport liquid through the pillars of the fauces into the valleculae.
(20) The normal organs appear as a pair of small oval protrusions at the upper lateral sites of the fauces, and consist of a single lymph nodule with a germinal center and a crypt-like epithelium with prominent lymphoid cell infiltration.
Pharynx
Definition:
(n.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(2) The sites involved primarily were the nasal cavity, tonsil and pharynx and about one-fourth of the total cases showed extensive involvement of two anatomical sites at initial presentation.
(3) The method allows reconstructive operations to be conducted on the distal part of the internal carotid artery with preservation of the intactness and function of the muscles and nerves of the pharynx.
(4) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(5) CR-ir was also observed in nerve fibers surrounding neuronal cell bodies in autonomic ganglia, and in nerve endings in the lip, tongue, incisal papilla, soft palate, pharynx and epiglottis.
(6) To review the physiologic basis for normal and abnormal vagal reflexes arising from the pharynx, larynx, and esophagus, as well as the relevance of vagal reflexes to the pathogenesis of such clinically common cardiorespiratory responses as bradycardia, tachycardia, dysrhythmia, coronary angiospasm, bronchospasm, laryngospasm, prolonged apnea, and singultus (hiccups).
(7) This approach can be expanded to reach almost any tumor of the pharynx and radical neck dissection can be incorporated.
(8) Hypoparathyroidism occurs secondary to surgery for carcinoma of the pharynx and larynx in which a total thyroidectomy is required.
(9) Esophageal strictures involved the pharynx or cervical esophagus in eight cases and were multiple in five; they ranged in length from 2 mm to 15 cm and tended to progress over time.
(10) Bacteriological examination of the stool and pharynx is useful in the management of immunocompromised patients.
(11) Four sensors in the pharynx simultaneously measure multiple pressure levels, with no need to move the catheter during sleep.
(12) Health workers must be familiar with proper resuscitation techniques, especially avoidance of excessive suctioning of the pharynx, and be alert to signs of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
(13) Congenital, neuromuscular and motor abnormalities of the pharynx, esophagus and diaphragm, coupled with intra- and extraluminal factors, play roles in the pathogenesis of esophageal diverticula.
(14) Chemical burns of the mouth, pharynx, and digestive passages have been reviewed in regard to the nature of the injury and wound description.
(15) This persistently reduced PaO2 in the former group is therefore most likely due to the physical presence of the endoscope in the pharynx.
(16) Probable site of action: pharynx, larynx, trachea, and bronchi.
(17) The spirochaetes remain motile in the pharynx and oesophageal diverticula for several hours but are apparently immobilised in the midgut (Kumm & Turner, 1936).
(18) We have tested this hypothesis by examining the pressure-area relationship of the pharynx in 13 patients and in 7 control subjects.
(19) The pharynx was rapidly labelled when NBD-cholesterol was added in medium with or without serum or attached to red blood cells only.
(20) Therefore, manometric measurements made in the pharynx during bolus flow are not invalidated by variations in the orientation of the catheter.