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n. The neck or throat.

n. The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.

n. In ornithology, the lower part of the throat; the fore part of the neck, between the gula and the pectus. See cut under bird.

n. In entomology: A name proposed by Knoch and used by some writers to indicate the lower surface of the prothorax of a beetle

n. A name given by Kirby to the basal piece on the lower side of an insect's head, now generally known as the gula.

n. A name sometimes applied to the occipital foramen, an orifice in the back of the head, through which the alimentary canal and other organs pass to the thorax.

"Thus of their goods and bodies we can dispose; but what shall become of their souls, God alone can tell; his mercy may come inter pontem et fontem, inter gladium et jugulum, betwixt the bridge and the brook, the knife and the throat."