A good gargle for scurvy of the fauces and pharynx, vulgarly called the 'inward scurvy.
Highly recommended in inflammation of the fauces and tonsils.
It attacks the face, nose and neck, and it usually destroys the fauces, palate and pharynx; the soft palate is entirely destroyed, and the only remains of the pillars of the fauces are scars of cicatricial tissue.
Great swelling of thefauces and dysphagia persisted for some days after the injury, and there was considerable hæmorrhage.
The patient asserted that the plate had been driven down his throat, but nothing was palpable either in the fauces or on external examination of the neck.
In the houses of the Tufa Period the corners of the fauces where it opens into the atrium were ornamented with pilasters connected at the top by an entablature.
Plan and section of the vestibule, threshold, and fauces of the house of Pansa.
The vestibule, unlike that of the other entrance, is open to the street, the fauces being narrower and deeper.
Entering, one would pass into the fauces ordinarily through the small door at the right (p.
The vestibule and fauceswere ordinarily of the same width, and were separated by projecting doorposts with a slightly raised threshold (Fig.
The walls of the faucesare ornamented in an unusual manner.
The large shops (2) are both connected with the house by doors opening into the fauces (1).
The tongue gathers it up and forces it backwards between the pillars of the fauces into the pharynx.
If we open the mouth before a mirror we see through the fauces the rear wall of the pharynx.
The tongue, nasal passages, muscles of the fauces and face, are agents which aid in the intonation of the voice.
A channel from the fauces to the middle ear, named from Eustachius, who first described it.
For these reasons, the scholar should be taught to open the mouth adequately when reading, speaking, or singing, that the sounds formed in the larynx and modified in the fauces may have an unobstructed egress.
The enunciation of words is rendered more or less distinct, in proportion as the jaws are separated in speaking, and the fauces and nasal passages are free from obstruction.
In inflammation, of the fauces and digestive tube.
In cases of poisoning by fungi, vomiting should be immediately induced by an emetic and tickling the fauces with the finger or a feather; after which a purgative clyster or a strong cathartic should be administered, with 1/2 to 1 fl.
Hence tickling the fauces with the finger or a feather, until sickness comes on, is a method very commonly adopted by drunkards to restore themselves to a sober state.
Administer an emetic of sulphate of zinc or sulphate of copper, and, if necessary, tickle thefauces with the finger or a feather, to induce vomiting.
When the soft palate is raised high behind the nose, the pillars of the fauces are lowered, and this frees the way for the main stream of breath to the head cavities.
When this happens, the resonance of the head cavities is diminished, that of the palate increased; for the soft palate sinks, and the pillars of the fauces are raised more and more.
Blind voices are often caused by the exaggerated practice of closing off the throat too tightly from the head cavities; that is, drawing the pillars of the fauces too far toward the wall of the throat.
Then when the highest point (the peak, which is extremely extensible) is reached, the pillars of the fauces are lowered, in order to leave the way for the head tones to the head cavities entirely free.
The French, on the contrary, always sing and speak nasally, with the pillar of the fauces raised high, and not seldom exaggerate it.
When it is raised, the pillars of the fauces are lowered.
In one case, a tumour of the fauces broke and yielded some ounces of coffee-coloured foetid matter, to the patient's relief and ultimate recovery.
Coughs and tumours about the fauces and throat, with a slight fever, often occurred in March; and regular intermittents, tertians or quotidians, were more frequent than for some years past.
Sloughs of the faucesand epiglottis extended as a membranous exudation into the trachea.
At the same time the cream-coloured sloughs or specks on the fauces become loose and are cast off, and the swelling goes down.
Among the symptoms, Watson mentions that the fauces were of a deep red colour, that the rash came out on the second day, and that there was no cough.
Several had racking pain in the head, many had singing in the ears and pain in the meatus auditorius, where sometimes an abscess formed: exulcerations and swelling of the fauces were likewise very common.
The mouth and fauces sympathize with the overloaded organ, and an increased quantity of fluid is poured from the mucous follicles and salivary glands, to aid in the process of digestion.
But whether this enormous waste of the secretions of the mouth and fauces can be borne by the constitution with impunity, you, Gentlemen, are abundantly competent to judge.
The palate andfauces may be destroyed by ulceration.
In some cases the erysipelas invades the mucous membrane of the mouth, and spreads to the fauces and larynx, setting up an œdema of the glottis which may prove dangerous to life.
The inspissated mucus on the tongue of those, who sleep with their mouths open, is sometimes reddened as if mixed with blood, and sometimes a little blood follows the expuition of it from the fauces owing to its great adhesion.
Swallowing our food is immediately caused by the pleasureable sensation occasioned by its stimulus on the palate or fauces and is acquired long before the nativity of the animal.
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.
The tongue becomes rather swelled; its colour and that of the fauces purplish; sloughs or ulcers appear first on the throat and edges of the tongue, and at length over the whole mouth.
Much mucus, of rather a saline taste, and less inspissated than usual, is evacuated from the faucesby hawking, owing to the deficient absorption of the thinner parts of it.
But the mouths of the lymphatics of the fauces are stimulated by the dry feather into too great action for a time, and become retrograde afterwards by the debility consequent to too great previous stimulus.
Inclination to take deep inspirations with hollow feeling in the chest, later with contraction in the fauces and chest.
Violent sneezing, causing pain in the roof of the mouth, the fauces and oesophagus all the way to the stomach, followed by long-continued pains at the cardiac orifice.
Dryness of the throat, the fauces are as if they were dried up, but without thirst.
Next morning the membrane was the same, pain now in left side, throat internally and externally oedematous, fauces and uvula glossy or varnished in appearance.
Burning sensation from the fauces down through the chest.
It must be noted, however, that they state that the mouth and fauces must first be thoroughly cleansed by swabbing and douching before Formamint is used.
The recipient usually becomes either pale or suffused, he has a ringing in his ears, has a sensation of great altitude, and occasionally has a dryness of the fauces and a metallic or a garlic taste.
When the juggler is about to "swallow the sword," he throws the head back so as to bring the mouth and fauces in a straight line with the pharynx and oesophagus.
The hard palate, U, which forms the roof of the mouth, is extended further backwards by the soft palate, V, which hangs as the loose velum of the throat between the nasal fossae above and the fauces below.
It produces a hot burning sensation in the fauces and oesophagus in the act of swallowing, severe burning pain in the stomach, and in most instances immediate vomiting.
The tongue, mouth, and fauces become swollen, soft, and flabby, and deglutition is difficult.
The soft palate is continued on either side by two folds known as the fauces; and each of the fauces has two ridges, the pillars of the fauces, between which are the tonsils.
The pillars of the fauces enclose muscular fibres which act respectively on the tongue, the sides of the pharynx, and the upper part of the larynx, and thus aid in the necessary movements of the vocal tract.
Hence by our attention to the fauces from our desire not to swallow our saliva; the fauces become more sensible; and the stimulus of the saliva is followed by greater sensation, and consequent desire of swallowing it.
Inflammation of the fauces is generally present, with superficial ulceration or excoriation; and sometimes the abraded portions of the mucous lining are covered with a whitish exudation.
The fauces and larynx of children are occasionally injured, as stated above, by the attempt to swallow by mistake boiling water, and inhaling the steam.
The fauces soon recover under the use of simple gargles.
The fauces and upper part of the larynx are only involved at first; this practice is sound, and good success may be expected from the operation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fauces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
