[1-2]: In classical and medieval times, the most common treatment for a chronically swollen uvula (Lat. casus uv(ul)ae, ON úfsig lit. ‘uvula-sinking’) was to have it removed surgically (see KLNM 6, 72-4). See also McDougall and McDougall 1998, 75-6 n. 116 and the literature cited there.