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the body's front desk, handling food, words, and very questionable decisions at 2am.
means The opening in the face used for eating, speaking, and breathing — and, by extension, any opening shaped like one, such as the mouth of a river or cave.
from From Old English 'muth,' a solidly Germanic word with cousins all over the family tree — Dutch 'mond,' German 'Mund,' even a likely deep relation to Latin 'mentum' (chin). The river-mouth and cave-mouth senses are old too: speakers have long seen a gaping opening and reached for the most familiar gaping thing they owned, the one on their own face.
- bite force
- jaw muscles can clench at 200 pounds of pressure
- taste reset
- taste buds fully replace themselves every two weeks
- bacteria census
- home to over 700 species of microbes
- saliva output
- produces enough spit to fill two bathtubs yearly
- first sense
- newborns explore the world mouth-first, not eyes
amazon river mouth — discharges 209,000 cubic meters of water per second into the atlantic ocean
mississippi river delta — creates a 100-mile-wide mouth emptying into the gulf of mexico near new orleans
nile river delta — forms a triangular mouth in northern egypt where it spreads into the mediterranean sea