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uvula
/ˈju.vjəl.ə/
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What does uvula mean?
noun
- Ellipsis of palatine uvula, the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.
- the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate
- an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈju.vjəl.ə/
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One result is the notorious villainousness of American cookery—a villainousness so painful to a cultured uvula that a French hack-driver, if his wife set its masterpieces before him, would brain her with his linoleum hat.
Abnormalism of the Uvula.--Examples of double uvula are found in the older writers, and Hagendorn speaks of a man who was born without a uvula.
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Thus one may thrust a pin into any part without evoking any pain and APPARENTLY without being felt; one may rub the cornea of the eye, that exquisitely sensitive part, without arousing a reaction; one may push a throat stick against the uvula as it hangs from the palate without arousing the normal and very lively reflex of "gagging."