Word: oropharynx
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...gaping roofs of mouths for 30 years, last week gave good cheer. In the American Journal of Surgery he pointed out that their defective speech is primarily due to the failure of the soft palate to close off and separate the nasopharynx (space back of the nose) from the oropharynx (mouth part of the throat). Consequence of such failure is that air which should escape from the mouth, during the enunciation of consonants, vibrates through the nasal cavity and escapes through the nostrils...
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