This overview is concerned with THROAT which could not be presented in a brief manner because of the many inherently related VITAL ideas. In the interest of brevity, some of these ideas such as TONGUE, LIPS, NUTRITION, NURSING, LICKING, SWALLOWING, GORGING, GARGANTUAN, JARGON and even GOURMET are explored in other companion overviews.

THROAT points to THROTTLE and refers to the exterior anterior NECK as well as to its interior cavity or PHARYNX.

 FAUCES and FAUCIUM, Latin for PHARYNX, imply that the throat, like a faucet, is constricted at its end. In fact, many humans choke on food stuck at the bottom of the throat.

Compression of the anterior neck can THROTTLE life by SUFFOCATION or compression of the FAUCE, which brings us back to the idea of FAUCET.

A FAUCET often has the shape of a spout, a fact reflected in Spanish by GRIFO which means SPOUT akin to the beaks of GRIFFINS. These examples should help GRASP GRAPHIC points that the throat or fauces, in a way, is our FAUCET to ingest or reGURGItate, an act which makes humans less than GORGEOUS and more like GORGONS.

GARGANTA in Spanish is throat and derives from GARG, an echoic word to remind us of throat sounds as in GARGLE, GARAGANTUAN, GARGOYLE and more.

Other related vistas are opened by GULLET, GLUT, GLOTIS, GOURMET which offer ideas linking structure and function. In this regard, the function of the throat or pharynx relates to EATING, BREATHING, TASTING and TALKING which can not be grasped without at least, exploring ideas in TONGUE, GLOSSO or LINGUA which point to vistas dealing with GLOSSARY and LANGUAGE.