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uvula

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uvula: see palate palate (păl`ĭt), roof of the mouth.
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uvula
a small fleshy finger-like flap of tissue that hangs in the back of the throat and is an extension of the soft palate

uvula [′yü·vyə·lə]
(anatomy)
A fingerlike projection in the midline of the posterior border of the soft palate.
A lobe of the vermiform process of the lower surface of the cerebellum.


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I predict the uvula (that dangly thing at the back of the mouth) will become the new hot body part.
With the tongue in this position, intraoral examination showed that the uvula was pushed up and into direct contact with the base of the frenulum (figure, I).
Primary vestibular afferents in the superior division of the vestibular nerve include axons that synapse in the superior and medial vestibular nuclei or the uvula, nodulus, flocculus, or fastigial nucleus of the cerebellum.
 
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