larynx
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The laryngeal nerve also connects the brain and larynx, helping control speech and swallowing.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
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
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
It is difficult to reconstruct natural features such as a person's ears, nose or larynx with current plastic surgery techniques, and transplanted tissue is often rejected without immunosuppressants.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Horace had at first offered the conjecture in his notes that the deceased’s larynx had clamped down—a spastic closure—to prevent liquid from reaching the deeper air passages.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
"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
The patterns matched those in live animals, as seen in an endoscopic video of a chimp waking from anesthesia and other similar recordings of the larynges of rhesus macaques and squirrel monkeys.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 10, 2022
This argument, however, is of no value, because it so happens that birds have two larynges, one at the bottom and the other at the top of the windpipe.
From The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Emil Behnke
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
He and his colleagues carried out experiments using larynxes, or "voice boxes", that had been carefully removed from three carcasses of stranded whales - a minke, a humpback and a sei whale.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 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
Another roar was loosed, this time by fifteen thousand Duckingfield larynxes.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
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