vocal folds
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Her manner of speech is otherworldly, like an arthropod testing out human vocal folds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
"This is a structure that wasn't known to exist outside of hummingbirds, but our CT scans revealed that swifts have these vocal folds in the same position," Clarke said.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
In humans, our voices come from vibrations when air passes over structures called vocal folds in our throat.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024
The researchers, whose work wasn’t funded by the military, examined footage of the vocal folds of 14 trans women as they spoke.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 17, 2023
Because the tissue and muscle in the vocal folds can become engorged with that extra blood, he said, “it can change the ways the vocal folds themselves oscillate.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
