fauces

Then you would be gulped to the fauces, the back of the mouth, and forced down.

It can be used without trouble; most children are sufficiently intelligent to allow the spray to be directed upon the fauces and larynx every ten or fifteen minutes in case of necessity.

Burning sensation from the fauces down through the chest.

"The sense of taste," says Hayward, "resides in the mucus membrane of the tongue, the lips, the cheeks, and the fauces."

All the reflexes are normal, except that of the fauces, which is abolished.