1) Air pipe 2) Voice box
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1) Box that makes sounds 2) Cartilaginous structure 3) French word used in English 4) Glottis locale 5) Home to the phonatory muscles 6) Language organ 7) Musical organ 8) Need to speak 9) Organ that produces sounds 10) Part below the glottis 11) Pitch maker 12) Site of the vocal cords 13) Speech organ
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• (n.) The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by...
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a hollow, tubular structure connected to the top of the windpipe (trachea); air passes through the larynx on its way to the lungs. The larynx also ... [10 related articles]
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The area of the throat containing the vocal cords and used for breathing, swallowing, and talking. Also called voice box.
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Larynx. Cross-sectional diagram Known commonly as the voice box or 'Adam's apple', an organ in the neck of humans and other mammals that is involved in the production sound and also serves to protect the upper part of the trachea (windpipe). The larynx houses the vocal cords and is shaped like ...
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(adj. Laryngeal) voice box. ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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(lar´inks) the muscular and cartilaginous structure, lined with mucous membrane, situated at the top of the trachea and below the root of the tongue and the hyoid bone; it contains the vocal cords and is the source of the sound heard in speech. The larynx is part of the respiratory system; air passes through it traveling from...
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The cartilage support structures that connect the superior trachea, the pharynx inferior to the tongue, and the hyoid bone. It supports the sphincter at the entrance to the trachea (the glottis or true vocal cords) and is therfore also the organ responsible for voice.
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Another name for the voice box. It is in the front of the neck, at the top of the windpipe.
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Lar'ynx (lăr'ĭnks; 277)
noun [ New Latin from Greek
la`rygx ,
- yggos .]
(Anat.) The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are ...
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Larynx: The larynx is the portion of the breathing, or respiratory, tract containing the vocal cords which produce vocal sound. It is located between the pharynx and the trachea. The larynx, also called the voice box, is a 2-inch-long, tube-shaped organ in the neck.
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(lar;ingks) The structure located between the pharynx and trachea that houses the vocal cords; commonly called the voice box.
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The larynx is the organ (voice-box) at the entrance to the trachea (windpipe) in the front of the neck. It is the organ by which the voice is produced. The larynx is enclosed by cartilages. Below it is supported by a firm ring, the cricoid cartilage, which is the entrance to the trachea proper. The much larger thyroid cartilage is perched on top of...
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A cavity at the top of the trachea containing the vocal cords.
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Muscular, cartilage-containing structure comprising the upper part of the respiratory tract between the pharynx and trachea, and containing the vocal chords; the "voice-box."
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larynx (s), larynges (pl) 1. The organ of voice production. 2. The part of the respiratory tract between the pharynx and the trachea. It consists of a framework of cartilages and elastic membranes housing the vocal folds and the muscles that control the position and tension of these elements.
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Structure at the upper end of the trachea that consists of several cartilages; it acts as a valve, regulating the flow of air into the trachea. In mammals the larynx is the voice box, but in birds it produces no sound, leaving sound production to the syrinx.
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larynx, upper part of windpipe.
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region of the respiratory tract containing the vocal cords; also referred to as the voice box
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voice box noun a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech
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In mammals, a cavity at the upper end of the trachea (windpipe) containing the vocal cords. It is stiffened with cartilage and lined with mucous membrane. Amphibians and reptiles have much simpler larynxes, with no vocal cords. Birds have a similar cavity, called the syrinx, found lower down the trachea, where it branches to form the bronchi. It is...
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Greek = voice-box, adjective - laryngeal.
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A hollow structure at the beginning of the trachea. The vocal cords extend across the opening of the larynx.
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(also called the voice box) a cylindrical grouping of cartilage, muscles, and soft tissue which contains the vocal cords. The vocal cords are the upper opening into the windpipe (trachea), the passageway to the lungs.
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