Word: gullet
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...many more supposedly vital parts the body can do without. Thanks largely to medicinal hormones that replace its own supply, the body can function adequately without: the master pituitary gland in the brain, both adrenals, the thyroid, the thymus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, one hemisphere of the brain, the gullet, much of the stomach, anywhere from a few inches to several feet of small bowel, the colon, rectum, one lung, one kidney, one testicle, one ovary, one breast, the prostate gland...
...Frank Hewitt Birch, who started from scratch without one word of Greek, sang Mr. Lodge's ingenious music most movingly, especially his lament for the King, and, at expiry of the final performance, fainted back stage. "Cold water on my face and a shot of whiskey in my gullet knocked me to my feet so I could take my bows with the rest of the cast...
...timbre are modified by the tongue, teeth and lips to make the different sounds of speech. In the laryngectomee, the exhaled air escapes through the hole in his neck (tracheostomy) where his Adam's apple used to be. But air can also be swallowed through the gullet (esophagus) and burped back again. And the swallowing muscles at the top of the gullet can be made to vibrate. As a result they give a lower tone. In the 1930's, a few laryngectomees discovered that they could produce speech of a sort by swallowing air and controlling their burps...
When the play opens at high pitch with a big confrontation scene between Bolingbroke and Mowbray, Basehart admirably conveys how ill-suited Richard is to be king: he slouches in his chair, popping grapes down his gullet and chatting with retainers, while paying scant attention to the dispute he is supposed to adjudicate...
...ulcer patients, who has had no food for 15 hours to make sure that his stomach is empty, sits in a chair and gets a local anesthetic sprayed into his throat. He then feels little discomfort as the surgeon shoves a rubber balloon down his throat, through his gullet and into his stomach. Cold absolute alcohol drips into the balloon through attached tubing until the patient feels his stomach distended, as though after a heavy meal. Then he lies on a table and pumping begins...