What is the dangly bit at the back of your throat called?

Answer 1

I just wanted to confirm what previous answerers have said.

The "dangly bit" is the uvula, a fleshy excrecence, more or less pear-shaped, that hangs from the roof of the mouth (soft palate). The exact shape and size of the uvula may be quite different on an individual basis.
Check this drawing:
http://www.ski-epic.com/snoring/mouth.gif

The uvula has a role both in the production of some sounds, and to prevent food from going up the nose during swallowing. It also produces large amounts of saliva that keeps our digestive duct moist.

The epiglottis, which is a fleshy and cartilaginous flap situated further in (you can't see it just by opening the mouth wide), functions as a "lid" so that food does not go the other way (into the trachea and lungs) during swallowing.
Picture here :
http://www.dysphagiaonline.com/en/images/Swallowing_Mechanism.jpg

Answer 2

Dangly Bit In Your Throat

Answer 3

The uvula is the small piece of soft tissue that can be seen dangling down from the soft palate over the back of the tongue.
The uvula has its own little muscle, the musculus uvuae, to help it stiffen and change shape, so it helps fill in the space at the back of the throat. It helps keep food from going down the wrong way down the breathing passage when one swallows. Singers credit the uvula with letting them produce a vibrato, a wavy up-and-down sound. The uvula is one of the soft-tissue structures commonly blamed for snoring and for sleep apnea.
It's not the epiglottis, thats a little farther down.

Answer 4

Thing At Back Of Throat

Answer 5

It's called the Palitine Uvula

Answer 6

Palatine Uvula

Answer 7

Uvula

Answer 8

You mean that redish pinkish thing that looks like a tear drop? yeah thats the Uvela or however you spell it.

Answer 9

Uvula, not epiglottis

Answer 10

It's the 'UVULA'