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Uvula  n.  (Anat.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate. Note: The term is also applied to a somewhat similar lobe on the under side of the cerebellum and to another on the inner surface of the neck of the bladder.





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"Uvula" Quotes from Famous Books



... my voice does not begin to grate upon you?" he asked solicitously. "Much talking affects my uvula." ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
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... other sapid body, which, unless it is strongly acrid or irritating, produces no effect on any other part than the tongue; but if it is possessed of much acrimony, it then not only affects the palate, and uvula, ...
— Popular Lectures on Zoonomia - Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease • Thomas Garnett
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... he did not understand what we were going to do, and endeavored to explain; but all in vain; he persisted in refusing to taste the water in the second barrel. I then tried to induce vomiting by tickling his uvula, and he brought off some bluish secretion from his stomach, the character of which confirmed our previous suspicions — that he had been poisoned by oxide of copper. We now felt convinced that any effort on our part to save him would be of no avail. The vomiting, however, had ...
— The Survivors of the Chancellor • Jules Verne
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Words linked to "Uvula" :   flap, uvular, soft palate


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