Usually means: Grooves between tongue and epiglottis.
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  1. valleculae: Merriam-Webster
  2. valleculae: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. valleculae: Collins English Dictionary
  4. valleculae: Wiktionary
  5. valleculae: Dictionary.com
  6. Valleculae: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Valleculae: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. valleculae: FreeDictionary.org
  9. valleculae: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. valleculae: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  3. valleculae: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vallecula)

noun:  (anatomy, botany) A depression, channel, or groove.
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