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pharyngoepiglottic fold (medicine)


pharyngoepiglottic fold -->
lateral glossoepiglottic fold


The fold of mucous membrane that extends from the margin of the epiglottis to the pharyngeal wall and base of the tongue on each side, forming the lateral boundary of the epiglottic valleculae.

Synonym: plica glossoepiglottica lateralis, pharyngoepiglottic fold.


fish(4) (iou)



fish verb1.

I. verb intrans.
Catch or try to catch fish, esp. by using a net or hook and line etc. (Foll. by for.) OE.
C. Stead This waterside, where he had fished for gudgeon as a child.
b. fig. Try to convert Other individuals to Christianity. LME.
Try to obtain or elicit a compliment, secret, etc., by indirect means or artifice. (Foll. by for.) M16.
J. Austen I am not fishing; don't compliment me. Roddy Doyle She told us that..she wasn't showing off and fishing for gratitude.
Search for something in or under water; grope or feel in search for or for something concealed. M17.
M. Shadbolt Reg tossed the gun in the harbour. The police are still fishing for it. S. King The pitchman sighed and fished inside his shirt.
b. (Try to) clear the borehole of a well of extraneous obstacles. E20.
Of water: provide (good or bad) sport for anglers. L19.
J. Buchan Sim had always declared that it [a tarn] only fished well after rain.
II. verb trans.
Catch or try to catch (fish); collect (coral etc.) from the seabed. LME.
Try to catch fish in (a stretch of water); search (something) for (information, papers, etc.). LME.
J. Buchan Remote glens where I could fish unfrequented streams.
Draw or pull (as) from water (foll. by from, out, out of, up); elicit, get out esp. by artifice, (a fact, opinion or secret). LME.
J. G. Cozzens The sodden body fished out of dirty water. R. Chandler He fished a match out of his pants.
b. Nautical. Draw the flukes of (an anchor) up close to the gunwale. L15.
c. Pull (a wire) through a conduit or between floors or walls by means of a stiff looped wire or Other device pushed in from the nearer end. L19.
Use as a bait in fishing; use (a boat etc.) for fishing. L19.
Compete as a fisherman in (a fishing-competition). L19.
Phrases: fish for oneself rely on one's own efforts. fish in troubled waters make one's profit out of disturbances. fish out exhaust the fish from (a pool etc.).
fisha'bility noun the property or condition of being fishable M20.
fishable adjective (of water) able to be fished in, suitable for fishing in E17.