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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 891 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence
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threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)
, the
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term applied to the front
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external
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part of the neck from below the
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chin to the
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collar-bone in human and animal anatomy, and to the
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internal parts, which include the gullet, viz. the fauces, pharynx and oesophagus, and the wind-
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pipe, viz. the larynx and trachea (see PHARYNX, ALIMENTARY CANAL, and
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RESPIRATORY
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SYSTEM: Anatomy; and for diseases see
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PHARYNGITIS,
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LARYNGITIS, DIPHTHERIA, TONSILITIS and OESOPHAGUS) .

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