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  • n  a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate

  • At any rate, the hoop in the man's uvula came undone and fell into his throat.
  • Each soft palate and uvula must have its own individual 'flutter ratio.
  • When Moigle is happy, his smile is so wide you can see his uvula flapping at the back of his throat.
News & Articles

  • UWT grad, 19, humble, smart, prone to doodling
    When Cristopher Claeys was 4, his mother, Annie Starwich-Claeys, took a college anatomy class – and he read the textbooks she brought home. “The next time he wasn’t feeling good, he said, ‘Mom, my uvula hurts,’ ” father Scott Claeys said.
    June 15, 2013 - Tacoma News Tribune
Quotes

  • Miley Cyrus in BuddyTV
    So I cut my uvula today on a piece of chicken,Miley said. "I put too much dressing on it and it got slippery and it got caught and it cut my uvula."

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