Word: nasopharynx
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...percent. Lung tumors that developed as a result of being exposed to secondhand smoke resembled those that developed as a result of active smoking, reinforcing the link between passive smo ki ng and increased cancer risks. The study also found a link between passive smoking and cancer in the nasopharynx, nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, cervix, gastrointestinal tract and breast...
...miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx. After eight minutes, he took the gadget out, put it in its case and sent Joke home...
...public-health officials worked to decontaminate the Haanschoten family and their neighbors, doctors pieced together a theory of what had happened. The needle - a powerful 50 millicurie source, 500,000 times what can be safely left in the body for a lifetime-had broken off in Joke's nasopharynx. She had swallowed it. During the evening, the radiation made Joke sick. When she vomited, up came the needle. In the stove, the capsule was destroyed and the radium salt was scattered through the ashes...
...True snoring must be ... defined as, a coarse, low-pitched noise produced by vibrating soft tissues in the nasopharynx of a sleeping person." Sometimes snoring is caused by an abnormality of the breathing passages (like adenoids) which can often be corrected. The tough cases are the ones with "an essentially normal nose and throat" who just snore...
...himself, got into dentistry through his efforts to mend it. Covering the gap in the back of the mouth where the soft palate should be was his problem. Normally during speech the soft palate moves and forms a partition between the mouth and the cavity back of the nose (nasopharynx). Without it sounds reverberate through the nose. Artificial palates made of hardened rubber for the hard palate and soft rubber for the soft palate do not work well. Hinged artificial palates cause trouble...