larynx

Somewhere between three and six months, the larynx descends to a lower position, allowing for the possibility of speech.

But, in the process of developing an adult vocal cord and larynx, we lose the expert chugging ability that newborns have.

The key to this superpower is the position of a baby’s larynx, the muscular organ that serves as the airway to the lungs and holds our vocal cords.

Electrodes record brain activity, and combined with the movement of the tongue, lips, jaw and larynx, the device offers up data that a deep-learning algorithm can translate into sentences.

So the most direct route from the brain to the larynx was now not south of that artery.

The bullet tore through my voice box and larynx before lodging itself in my trapezius.

Showing diplomatic grace after the incident, she joked: “I broke my elbow, not my larynx.”

When the quantity is very small there may be no cough, the sputum reaching the larynx by action of the bronchial cilia.

Take the scalpel and sever the spinal column without cutting the larynx.

Illustrations of the appearance of the larynx during phonation in two special cases.

In the lower illustration we have the appearances presented in a man affected with tuberculosis of the lungs and larynx.

Such are the appearances presented under the microscope by skeletal or striped muscles such as those of the larynx.