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It hangs in your throat
Answer for the clue "It hangs in your throat ", 5 letters:
uvula
Alternative clues for the word uvula
- It hangs down from the soft palate
- Palatal pendant
- It's often enlarged in cartoon depictions of screaming
- Soft-palate dangler
- Flappy thing in the throat
- Body part that rises when saying "ah"
- Usual changes, not special, but very necessary for part of mouth
- Lobe at the middle of the soft palate
- Lump in one's throat?
- That thing dangling from your palate
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.