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larynx

[lar-ingks] / ˈlær ɪŋks /




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In most large mammals, deeper voices are expected because the larynx typically grows larger as body size increases.

From Science Daily Feb. 25, 2026

As well as mesothelioma, asbestos can cause other forms of lung cancer, larynx and ovarian cancer.

From BBC Apr. 24, 2025

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

Bruising, hoarseness, the sore larynx, this strange little cough — not to be worried about.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

"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

To conduct the work, scientists removed the larynges from eight domestic cats, all of which had been humanely euthanized because of terminal disease and were investigated with the full consent of their owners.

From Science Magazine Oct. 3, 2023

Mathematical models of other primates’ larynges yielded similar results.

From New York Times Aug. 11, 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 Eden Paul

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

Jilted Cavs fans summoned every ounce of strength from their larynxes to jeer him into oblivion.

From Seattle Times Sep. 8, 2022

The Blackhampton Excelsior Prize Brass Band fought nobly but in vain against fifty thousand larynxes, and mounted police did their best to prevent their owners bursting through the barriers to the field of play.

From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith




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