root of the tongue

Radical consonants are made with the root of the tongue (the back part).

Slaughterhouses remove tonsils, he said, but they often allow the root of the tongue, which may also be infected, into the food supply.

Headache as if bruised all through the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue with nausea.

The root of the tongue gives the "ideal sound"; and the pharynx the "ideal sight."

Twi vowels engage in a form of vowel harmony with the root of the tongue.

Bochdalek's cyst: a congenital cyst at the root of the tongue.

Intense pain in the root of the tongue on protrusion may be present or the sensation of a hair on the tongue.

The epiglottic vallecula is a depression (vallecula) just behind the root of the tongue between the folds in the throat.

A 'pharyngeal consonant' is a type of consonant which is articulated with the root of the tongue against the pharynx.

These are consonants that are pronounced with the root of the tongue retracted, with varying degrees of pharyngealization and velarization.

The hyoglossal membrane is a strong fibrous lamina, which connects the under surface of the root of the tongue to the body of the hyoid bone.

Below is a table of the vowels divided by their places of articulation in the oral cavity as well as the position of the root of the tongue.

In this type of vowel harmony, the position of the root of the tongue is the phonetic basis for the distinction between two harmonizing sets of vowels.

They contrast with coronal consonants articulated with the flexible front of the tongue, and radical consonants articulated with the root of the tongue.

They washed the mud off the beast with water and saw the spears of Wi, one fixed deep in its eye socket and one in its throat at the root of the tongue.

This contrasts with the pharyngeal consonants, where the root of the tongue contacts the back wall of the pharynx, and prototypical epiglottal consonants, where the aryepiglottic folds contact the epiglottis.

It also has a secondary articulation of velarization or pharyngealization, meaning that the back or root of the tongue approaches the soft palate (velum), or the back of the throat, respectively.

Thus, in Arabic emphasis is synonymous with a secondary articulation involving retraction of the dorsum or root of the tongue, which has variously been described as velarization or pharyngealization depending on where the locus of the retraction is assumed to be.

The excitement in Twala's camp on the plain beyond was very great, and regiment after regiment was starting forward at a long swinging trot in order to reach the root of the tongue of land before the attacking force could emerge into the plain of Loo.

The tonsillar branch of the facial artery ascends between the pterygoideus internus and styloglossus muscles, and then along the side of the pharynx, perforating the constrictor pharyngis superior, to ramify in the substance of the palatine tonsil and root of the tongue.

Here to one side of and near the root of the tongue of land of which I have spoken, the huts that Zikali had demanded for himself and his company were being rapidly built, close to a spring of water, by a large body of men who laboured as though they wished to be done with their task.

The anterior or lingual surface of the epiglottis is curved forward, and covered on its upper, free part by mucous membrane which is reflected on to the sides and root of the tongue, forming a median and two lateral glossoepiglottic folds; the lateral folds are partly attached to the wall of the pharynx.