What is the meaning of Uvula?

Ellipsis of palatine uvula.: the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing

the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate

an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper

uvula, palatine uvula

Diminutive of ūva.

Uvula (appendage that hangs from the palate)

Source: wiktionary.org