larynx
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His parents were told he might never walk and might struggle with eating after needing surgery for a floppy larynx.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
This mechanism works in a way that is similar to a human whistle, except the airflow that creates the sound becomes turbulent inside the horse's larynx rather than at the lips.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026
I should first clarify for readers that in real life you don’t speak like the ghost of every British stage ham converged into one larynx.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Consultations with doctors eventually brought a brutal diagnosis: spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder in which the muscles in the larynx tighten or lapse into spasms, strangulating speech while making singing a significant challenge.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
“Can I have my camera back?” he asked almost incoherently when his larynx was at last clear.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
"When we blew helium through the larynges for the first time, the frequency shift was immediately obvious, and we knew we'd solved the mystery," says author William Tecumseh Fitch of the University of Vienna.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026
To test these theories, scientists studied eight larynges from cats with terminal illnesses that had been humanely euthanized.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
Mathematical models of other primates’ larynges yielded similar results.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
They hooked up three larynges that had been removed from the bodies of these apes to a device that blows compressed air through the organ, simulating vocalization.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 10, 2022
We know that there exist women with beards, masculine larynges, and a masculine type of thorax; and, on the other hand, men with feminine mammæ, feminine larynges, and a feminine type of pelvis.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden
As the study authors explain, baleen whales and their toothed whale cousins could not survive with the larynxes from their land mammal ancestors.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024
For the first time, Elemans could use these three larynxes to replicate what happens when the animals produce sound.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 21, 2024
As he notes, a cat will usually only purr when it feels safe, comfortable, and content—something that wouldn’t be possible if the felines had uncomfortable probes inserted into their larynxes.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 3, 2023
They still thought it was worth wearing out their larynxes for the defense on third down.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
We haven't got to gird our loins with a new frenzy and our larynxes with a new Glory Song.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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