fauces

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

April 14th, is much prostrated; temperature 104.5°, pulse rapid and weak; respiration noisy, diminished resonance over lower two-thirds of left side of chest; ulcers upon the mouth and tongue; fauces red and ulcerated.

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.