Usually means: Opening from mouth to pharynx.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. fauces: Merriam-Webster
  2. fauces: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fauces: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fauces: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fauces: Vocabulary.com
  6. fauces: Wordnik
  7. fauces: Wiktionary
  8. fauces: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fauces: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fauces: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fauces: Dictionary.com
  12. Fauces (anatomy), Fauces (architecture), Fauces (throat), Fauces: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Fauces: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fauces: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fauces: Rhymezone
  16. Fauces: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. fauces: FreeDictionary.org
  18. fauces: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. fauces: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fauces: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. fauces: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fauces: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Fauces: Anatomy of the Human Body
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Fauces: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. Fauces (anatomy), fauces: Medical dictionary
  9. Fauces: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fauces)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
▸ noun:  (botany) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
▸ noun:  (zoology) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.

Similar:
faucal, face, fossula, filtrum, foussa, faucitis, futchel, upface, foosa, fosse, more...

Phrases:
isthmus of fauces, pillars of fauces, isthmus of the fauces, pillars of the fauces, isthmus faucium isthmus of fauces, more...

Adjectives:
posterior, internal, whole, entire, anterior, external, sanguine, inflamed, narrow, red, right

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Similar:
faucal, face, fossula, filtrum, foussa, faucitis, futchel, upface, foosa, fosse, more...

Phrases:
isthmus of fauces, pillars of fauces, isthmus of the fauces, pillars of the fauces, isthmus faucium isthmus of fauces, isthmus of fauces isthmus faucium, p's of the fauces, ps of the fauces, more...

Adjectives:
posterior, internal, whole, entire, anterior, external, sanguine, inflamed, narrow, red, right



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