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Emulsin (medicine) and posterior pillar of fauces (medicine)


Emulsin (medicine)


emulsin
<chemistry> The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.

An unorganised ferment (contained in this extract and in Other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

See: Emulsion, Emulge.

Source: Websters Dictionary


posterior pillar of fauces (medicine)


posterior pillar of fauces -->
palatopharyngeal arch


One of a pair of ridges or folds of mucous membrane which passes downward from the posterior margin of the soft palate to the lateral wall of the pharynx. It encloses the palatopharyngeus muscle and forms the posterior margin of the tonsillar fossa. It also demarcates the isthmus of fauces from oropharynx.

Synonym: arcus palatopharyngeus, pharyngopalatine arch, posterior palatine arch, posterior pillar of fauces.