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The attic above your throat where nose and mouth air traffic merges.
means The upper part of the throat, sitting behind the nose and above the soft palate, where the nasal passages open into the rest of the airway.
from Built from Latin nasus ("nose") and pharynx, itself from Greek pharynx meaning "throat" or "gullet" — a straightforward anatomical compound, stitched together as medical Latin did with so many body parts, naming the place simply by what meets there: nose and throat.
- location
- behind the nose, above the soft palate
- job
- warms and filters air before lungs see it
- neighbor
- houses the adenoids, tonsils of the ceiling
- swab fame
- the dreaded deep covid test target