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"Bag" in the back of the throat
Answer for the clue ""Bag" in the back of the throat ", 5 letters:
uvula
Alternative clues for the word uvula
- A lump in one's throat
- Dangly lobe in the throat
- Lump in one's throat?
- Throat projection
- It's down in the mouth
- Something seen with a tiny flashlight
- Throat doctor's concern
- Punching bag in the throat, in cartoons
- Part of the throat whose name comes from the Latin for "little grape"
- That thing dangling in your throat
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.