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Palate mass
Answer for the clue "Palate mass ", 5 letters:
uvula
Alternative clues for the word uvula
- It hangs near the tonsils
- It's found near the tongue
- Flap at the back of the soft palate
- Punching bag in the throat, in cartoons
- It dangles in your throat
- Dangling tissue near the tonsils
- It makes you snore
- Fleshy projection in the back of the mouth
- Thing attached to the soft palate
- Soft palate thing
Usage examples of uvula.
Usually the disease is located in the upper part of the pharynx, or throat, behind and above the uvula and soft palate, and is thus hidden from view when looking into the throat through the mouth.
It seemed like familiar territory to her now, the furry tongue, the tonsillar pillars, the uvula hanging down in a quivering flap of pink flesh.
With the left hand then insert an instrument, a stilus, by which the uvula is pulled forward, and then remove the end of it by means of a heated knife or some other process of cauterization.
From such trifles as uvulas and tonsils they went on to ovaries and appendices until at last no one's inside was safe.