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Palatal dangler
Answer for the clue "Palatal dangler ", 5 letters:
uvula
Alternative clues for the word uvula
- Punching bag in the throat, in cartoons
- Soft palate projection
- Fleshy piece in the throat
- It's often enlarged in cartoon depictions of screaming
- Swallowing aid
- Body part that rises when saying "ah"
- Throat "punching bag"
- Usual changes, not special, but very necessary for part of mouth
- Dangling tissue near the tonsils
- It's found near the tongue
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.