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Fauces Faucet
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ FAUCES  lat for see> THROAT or see> PHARYNX
~ FAUCET  id+ | PROTRUSION with an OPENING |
          id+ | INTERIOR OF THE THROAT |
          id+ | FAUCET LIKE CONSTRICTED OPENING |
  lat    FAUCES     = PHARYNX or
       GUTTUR         also
       JUGULUM        note
         FAUCIUM      CONSTRICTION
  sp     FAUCE        GULLET or FAUCET or THROAT LIKE
         FARINGE      or
         GRIFO        FAUCET
  gr     PHARYNX      or INTERIOR OF THE THROAT
  med    PHARINGITIS  INFLAMED THROAT or
                      "SORE THROAT"
  lat  SUFFOCO        TO THROTTLE or
  med> SUFFOCATE      or
       ASPHYXIATE     by compression of THROAT
  sp   GARGANTA       THROAT
  eng  GARGLE         TO AGITATE and
  med>                RINSE THE THROAT or
                      THROAT SOUND or NOISE
  THE PHARYNX IS THE "THROAT" or
  PASSAGE LINKING THE MOUTH or
  ORAL CAVITY ENDING IN THE OROPHARYNX and
  THE NASAL PASSAGE ENDING IN THE NASOPHARYX
  THESE ARE SEPARATED BY THE END OF THE
  SOFT PALATE AND BOTH ARE ABOVE THE EPIGLOTTIS
  BELOW THE EPIGLOTTIS IS THE HYPOPHARYX
  WHICH ENDS IN THE LARYNX AND ESOPHAGUS
  ply> | A   THROAT or      FAUCES can
         be  THROTTLED or SUFFOCATED or
             CHOKED like a  FAUCET |
  note above ideas evolve along
  see> GARGANTA  see> GARGANTUAN
  sug> GORGE     sug> GOURMET
  sug> GARGOYLE  sug> GURGITATE
  see> GRIFFIN   sug> SPOUT

  
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