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  2. Muscles of mastication - Wikipedia

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    The four classical muscles of mastication elevate the mandible (closing the jaw) and move it forward/backward and laterally, facilitating biting and chewing. Other muscles are responsible for opening the jaw, namely the geniohyoid, mylohyoid, and digastric muscles (the lateral pterygoid may play a role).

  3. Fauces (throat) - Wikipedia

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    Faucitis in a 12-year-old cat that presented with inappetence, tenderness of the mouth, and inability to groom itself. Gingivitis, erosive lingual ulcers and faucitis were evident clinically. Inflammation of the fauces, known as faucitis, is seen in animals. In cats, faucitis is usually a secondary disease to gingivitis but can be a primary ...

  4. Anatomical terms of motion - Wikipedia

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    Pronation at the forearm is a rotational movement where the hand and upper arm are turned so the thumbs point towards the body. When the forearm and hand are supinated, the thumbs point away from the body. Pronation of the foot is turning of the sole outwards, so that weight is borne on the medial part of the foot. [33]

  5. Vocal cords - Wikipedia

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    As vocal fold vibration is a foundation for vocal formants, this presence or absence of tissue layers influences a difference in the number of formants between the adult and pediatric populations. In females, the voice is three tones lower than the child's and has five to twelve formants, as opposed to the pediatric voice with three to six.

  6. Soft palate - Wikipedia

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    The soft palate (also known as the velum, palatal velum, or muscular palate) is, in mammals, the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth.The soft palate is part of the palate of the mouth; the other part is the hard palate.

  7. Pronation - Wikipedia

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    Anatomical terms of motion#Pronation and supination; Authority control databases: Terminologia Anatomica; Retrieved from "https: ...

  8. Place of articulation - Wikipedia

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    The base a.k.a. root of the tongue and the throat ; The aryepiglottic fold inside the throat (aryepiglottal) The glottis at the very back of the windpipe ; In bilabial consonants, both lips move so the articulatory gesture brings the lips together, but by convention, the lower lip is said to be active and the upper lip passive.

  9. Palatine tonsil - Wikipedia

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    The palatine tonsils are located in the isthmus of the fauces, between the palatoglossal arch and the palatopharyngeal arch of the soft palate.. The palatine tonsil is one of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues (MALT), located at the entrance to the upper respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts to protect the body from the entry of exogenous material through mucosal sites.