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The little concavity between the false vocal bands above and the true vocal bands below is termed the ventricle of the larynx.
VOICE PRODUCTION IN SINGING AND SPEAKINGWESLEY MILLSThen rest the cork with the forks as counter-weights upon the end of the egg to which the concavity has been adapted.
THE STRAND MAGAZINE, VOLUME XXVII, JANUARY 1904, NO. 157VARIOUSNext cut a slight concavity in one end of one of the corks, so as to adapt it as exactly as possible to one end of an egg.
THE STRAND MAGAZINE, VOLUME XXVII, JANUARY 1904, NO. 157VARIOUSIt drops into a vast concavity in the sand rock, where the water is of unfathomable depth, black and still.
SUMMARY NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORATORY EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, IN 1820HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFTLong shallow flakes were removed to thin the base in the basal concavity.
HANDBOOK OF ALABAMA ARCHAEOLOGY: PART I POINT TYPESJAMES W. CAMBRONIt is circular, and is placed on the concavity of the ventral flexure.
THE WORKS OF FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOUR, VOLUME 1FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOURShe was at the center of a far flung concavity of crest and range.
THE CHALICE OF COURAGECYRUS TOWNSEND BRADYThe lateral depressor muscle is attached to several quite distinct crests, seated in a concavity beneath the adductor ridge.
A MONOGRAPH ON THE SUB-CLASS CIRRIPEDIA (VOLUME 2 OF 2)CHARLES DARWINThe charge is put in at the throat, near the summit of the octagonal or square concavity, for they are made of both forms.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW UREDitto, with rounded bottom, enlarged middle and small concavity on apex.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS OBTAINEDJAMES STEVENSONWORDS RELATED TO CONCAVITY
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