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That thing dangling in your throat
Answer for the clue "That thing dangling in your throat ", 5 letters:
uvula
Alternative clues for the word uvula
- Punching bag in the throat, in cartoons
- It hangs from the soft palate
- It hangs down from the soft palate
- Flappy thing in the throat
- Dangling tissue near the tonsils
- Literally, "little grape"
- Body part that helps you form sounds
- One down in the mouth?
- Soft palate thing
- Soft palate feature that translates to "little grape"
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.