Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed.
To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
Through a blowpipe or quill inserted into theglottis blow air into the trachea and observe the inflation of the lungs and of certain large air-sacs in the abdomen, which communicate with them.
In the gar pike, bow-fin and the lung-fishes of the tropics, the air-bladder is a true lung used for breathing and connected by a sort of glottis with the oesophagus.
Insert a blowpipe into the glottis and inflate the lungs, which will fill all the otherwise unfilled space in the thoracic cavity.
Insert a blowpipe or quill into the glottisjust back of the tongue, and inflate the lung, which is a long, thin-walled bag extending from the region of the heart posteriorly for two-thirds of the length of the body.
When, however, the glottis is somewhat narrowed, the breath brushes past the vocal chords, and an h is produced; this we may call a voiceless glottal continuant.
We considered the glottis (the interval between the vocal chords) in § 6.
As we let slip the blow, the glottis opens and the air escapes, often with a curious aspirated sound as is noticeable in workmen.
The spasm of the glottis is produced under the influence of any strong emotion--in anger, for example, or in fear, in excitement or in crying for any reason.
There was evidently paralysis of the optic nerve and of the oculomotor muscles; and the muscles of the glottis were also in some manner deprived of motion.
The right arm healed, but the left showed erysipelatous inflammation, culminating in edema, which affected the glottis to such an extent that tracheotomy was performed to save her life.
A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.
A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes theglottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.
In Erythrinus and other Characinids the glottis is not mid-ventral but decidedly lateral in position, suggesting either a retention of, or a return to, ancestral stages in the dorsalward migration of the glottis.
Neoceratodus) the lung apparatus has acquired a dorsal position, but its connexion with the mid-ventral glottis is asymmetrical, passing round the right side of the gut.
Were the predominant function of the lung in such a form to become hydrostatic we might expect the course of evolution to lead to a shifting of the glottis dorsalwards so as to bring it nearer to the definitive situation of the lung.
In the Crossopterygian the ventrally placed slit-like glottis leads into a common chamber produced anteriorly into two horns and continued backwards into two "lungs.
The anterior portion of the lung or lungs is connected with the median ventral glottis by a short wide vestibule which lies on the right side of the oesophagus.
The shape of the glottis is also modified in numerous ways by the movement of the tongue and mandibles.
It is plain that the air about to be forced from the glottis is flung back by some muscular action and set to vibrating in the laryngean cavity, thus giving the sound its croaking quality when the elastic current is finally released.
It required long and patient practice before I finally succeeded in drawing forward the lid so that I could see the glottis in its whole length.
But it is not a shock of the glottis at all," says Mr. Lunn, on page 68 of the book quoted before.
The glide of the glottis is particularly hard to eradicate, and in many instances the case seems to be hopeless.
The glottis also, in this case, as well as the parts of the voicebox near the glottis, betrays the effort very plainly; as the tones ascend, the glottis and the surrounding parts grow more and more red.
The foremost part of the glottis formed an oval orifice, which, with every higher tone, seemed to contract more and more, and so became smaller and rounder.
By this movement the chink of the glottis is thrown wide open into the shape depicted on pl.
The rest of the action of the glottis is, however, entirely the same.
The last-named compared the lips of the glottis to the strings of a violin; hence was given the name Vocal Cords, which they have since retained.
It must be observed that neither the stroke nor the slide of the glottis can be shown to have any influence in causing the laryngeal muscles to adopt any particular mode of adjustment.
Obviously, this closure of the glottis cannot be effected by the contraction of the glottis-closing muscles, strictly speaking, for these muscles are too small and weak to withstand the powerful air pressure exerted against the vocal cords.
Closure of the glottisby the inflation of the ventricles imposes no strain on the vocal cords.
Mandl, nor any other advocate of breath-control, seems to have read an article by Sir Charles Bell dealing with this same action, the closing of the glottis against a powerful exhalation.
When it is erect, the chink of the glottis is open, as in inspiration; when depressed, as in swallowing food and drink, it covers and closes this aperture.
Defn: To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
Defn: A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.
It required long and patient practice before I finally succeeded in drawing back the epiglottis so that I could see the glottis in its whole length.
But, unfortunately, however dexterous we may be in disposing these organs, and even when we are most successful, at least the third part of the anterior of the glottis remains concealed by the epiglottis.
Lastly, we verify that up to the highest sounds of the register the glottis continues to diminish in length and in width.
The oval opening of the anterior portion of the glottis is imperfectly shown, because it is hidden from view by the epiglottis at the extreme end.
The little time used by the breath between these rapidly succeeding pulses to retreat, in order to give another pulse, suffices perfectly to produce easily and quickly the position of the glottis requisite for a higher or lower tone.
As recently great importance has often been ascribed to these abnormal movements of the glottis in the generation of sound, I have felt bound to mention them.
The length of the glottis necessary to form a falsetto note always exceeds that which produces the unison of the chest.
But even when, after long practice, one is able at last to bring the whole glottis into view, this is not by any means enough.
With every higher tone the vocal ligaments seemed more stretched and the glottis somewhat shorter.
The glottis may be inflamed, and if there is danger of asphyxia, tracheotomy may have to be performed.
Poisoning, as by hydrocyanic acid, cyanide of potassium, inhalation of carbonic acid or coal gas, oedema of glottis following inhalation of ammonia.
Sing the scale in music, using first the glottis stroke; that is, speak each very short as you go up and down the scale.
Traube reports a fatal case of oedema of the glottis from such a cause.
The glottis in the female is much smaller than in the male, and the vocal cords are shorter.
In some instances, the disease rapidly proceeds to a fatal termination, the glottis being speedily and entirely shut by the swelling; in others, the patient lingers for weeks, or even months.
A most extensive and dreadful disease of the organ is here represented; along with induration of the whole organ, ulceration had penetrated like a tunnel from the apex to the base; œdema of the glottis supervened.
Now, if the various muscles of the larynx be relaxed, the opening of the glottis is wider.
Uchermann[126] has reported a case of recurrent attacks of mutism at intervals of five or ten minutes in a man of sixty-eight, examination of whose larynx during the seizure showed the glottis to be in spasm.
The deglutition of external air is preceded by an aspiratory thoracic effort; closure of the glottis forces the OEsophagus to open under the stress of increased negative intrathoracic pressure, and to suck air down.
The glottis is either open, allowing the silent escape of air, or it is completely occluded.
Her glottis contracts forcibly; her efforts at expiration are ineffectual, or else the air escapes in little explosive puffs, and at the same time her lips twitch and her eyelids flicker.
The glottis in breathing, whispering, and vocalisation 11.
The soft vocal note, or aspirate, shows that the chink of the glottis is not completely closed, and especially the rima respiratoria (the space between the vocal processes of the pyramidal cartilages.
Besides these there is the epiglottis, which from its situation above the glottis acts more or less as a lid.
The chink of the glottis or the opening between the vocal cords as seen in the mirror of the laryngoscope varies in size.
The mirror is warmed to prevent the moisture of the breath obscuring the image, and it is introduced into the back of the throat in such a manner that the glottis appears reflected in it.
The light from the lamp is reflected by the concave mirror on to the small mirror, which, owing to its angle of 45°, illuminates the glottis and reflects the image of the glottis with the vocal cords.
The main and important part of the resonator, however, is situated above the glottis (the opening between the vocal cords, vide fig.
Above the glottis and on opposite sides are two pockets or ventricles, and above these are the so-called false cords or ventricular bands.
With a normal attack--the spiritus lenis in contradistinction to the spiritus asper--the glottis is in position for phonation at the moment breath passes through it.
Again, the air may be sent up with such velocity that some of it leaks through before the glottis has time to intercept it; or with such violence as to force the lips of the chink a little too far apart.
The vocal cords, as has been stated, lie parallel to each other, and the space between them is known as the glottis or chink of the glottis.
In the audible shock of the glottis (sometimes called the "check glottid") the vocal cords are pressed together and the retained breath causes a shock or explosion.
The audible shock of theglottis cannot be avoided when it is necessary to accentuate a word beginning with an initial vowel.
Not only is the voice-emission pure, but there is no needless fatigue of voice, because all superfluous movement of the glottis is avoided.
These subtle changes in the size and shape of the glottis are, as I shall expect to show, of great importance in voice-production.
The change that theglottis undergoes in the modulation of the voice has been matter of much controversy.
Aristotle and Galen compared theglottis to a wind instrument; Ferrein assimilated it to a chorded one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glottis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
