||Fau"ces (?), n. pl. [L.] 1. (Anat.) The narrow passage from the mouth
||to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the
||tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of
||the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces,
||inclose the tonsils.