Definition of Faucal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the fauces.

Category relationships: Anatomy, General Anatomy
Partainyms: Fauces
Derivative terms: Fauces

Definition of Faucal

1. a. Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial;

Definition of Faucal

1. Adjective. Relating to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial. ¹

2. Noun. (phonetics) A sound produced in the fauces. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Faucal

1. a sound produced in the fauces [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Faucal

fatuousness
fatuousnesses
fatwa
fatwaed
fatwah
fatwahed
fatwahing
fatwahs
fatwaing
fatware
fatwas
fatwood
fatwoods
faubourg
faubourgs
faucal (current term)
faucals
fauces
faucet
faucetless
faucetlike
faucets
fauchard
fauchards
fauchion
fauchions
fauchon
fauchons
faucial
faucial branches of lingual nerve

Literary usage of Faucal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic by Richard Lepsius (1863)
"The absence of any nasal sound in the faucal series is necessitated by the physiological position of the faucal point, the contraction of which closes at ..."

2. Nursery Tales, Traditions, & Histories of the Zulus, in Their Own Words by Henry Callaway (1868)
"The sound certainly does somewhat resemble an imperfect faucal click. ... a " " faucal explosive ; but acknowledges that he is "as yet at a loss regarding ..."

3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Andrew Bruce Davidson, James Hastings, Samuel Rolles Driver, John Alexander Selbie, Henry Barclay Swete (1908)
"... heth, called the ' fricative faucal,' was a continuous guttural, resembling the ch in the Scotch loch ; and he was a fainter sound of the same kind, ..."

4. A Treatise on Diphtheria: Historically and Practically Considered; Including by Albert Sanné (1887)
"These considerations have only a secondary value in all those cases in which faucal paralysis exists, which alone is enough to affirm the nature of the ..."

5. The "Standard-alphebet" Problem Or the Preliminary Subject of a General by Robert Moffat (1864)
"There is no contact of organs in the faucal passage, this being only more or less narrowed, as in the case of any ordinary vowels; the nasalization of the ..."

6. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1902)
"In the study of this disease process, as manifested in that part of the throat structure known as the faucal pillars, there are certain features to which ..."

7. The Hygiene of the School Child by Lewis Madison Terman (1914)
"The structures most often affected in children are the faucal (throat) ... The faucal and the nasal tonsils are structurally similar, being made up of ..."

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