And so, as before, I want you not to think of the physiological aspect, but to yield to the emotion, noting the character of the resultant tone, regardless of what has happened in the larynx to produce that result.
I assure you that we take great interest in that larynx of yours.
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.
We may, however, readily recognise that we are dealing with the former if the contractions of tongue, palate, and larynx are contemporaneous with the execution of a functional act, such as expectoration.
A brief abstract of some wounds of the neck, which occurred during the Crimean campaign, will serve to exhibit the leading symptoms connected with them when the larynx, or larynx and œsophagus, are involved.
Murie: "In front of the larynx of man we all know that there is an elastic lid, the epiglottis, which folds over and protects the air passage as food is swallowed.
Their callosities and cheek-pouches are large, and they have a sac which communicates with the larynx under the thyroid cartilage, which fills with air when they cry out.
With the larynx thus retained bolt upright, and the blow-hole being meanwhile compressed or closed, the cetacean is enabled to swallow food under water without the latter entering the lungs.
The application of the constant current in neuralgic affections of the larynx and pharynx is of most indisputable service; the experience of Tobold[45] upon this point is fully borne out by my own, as far as it goes.
At puberty there is a slight hyperæmia of the larynx, accompanied by rapid development alike of the larynx itself and of the vocal cords, which become larger and thicker, while there is an associated change in the voice, which deepens.
The mechanism of the process is not fully understood, but it would appear that congestion and paresis of the larynx is produced and spasm of the bronchial tube.
By altering the shape of the mouth the various harmonics of any fundamental note produced by the larynx are rendered prominent, and so we get the different vocal sounds.
The eye is compared with the camera, the larynx with a reed pipe, the heart with a pump, while the ear fitly opens the chapter on acoustics.
Jules Bouvyer, of Cauteretz, employs it with success in certain affections of the larynx as an adjuvant to the sulphurous treatment.
As regards the anginæ, the acute inflammations of the larynx and pharynx, we might repeat what has been said about inflammations of the mouth.
Defn: The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
Defn: Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.
In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular organ, partly surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea.
Defn: The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.
Defn: The opening from the pharynx into the larynxor into the trachea.
Note: Voice, in this sense, is produced by vibration of the so-called vocal cords in the larynx (see Illust.
Defn: The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand.
Defn: An instrument for recording the larynx movements in speech.
The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis.
Defn: Having the intrinsic muscles of the larynx attached to the middle of the semirings.
Defn: Situated below the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx below the true vocal cords.
By a professional killer; the larynx has been cut above the glottis, and with the same stroke the two carotid arteries, with the jugular veins.
The mechanism which the larynx employs to produce the falsetto is just as natural as the mechanism employed to produce the chest voice.
This process, in many cases, goes on slowly and with so little active congestion of the larynx that the voice changes from soprano to alto, and thence to tenor almost imperceptibly.
As the larynx gains in firmness from year to year, they experience more and more difficulty with their upper tones-- those lying from F to C.
The larynx itself consists of a framework of cartilages joined by elastic membranes or ligaments, and joints.
It is scarcely possible, however, that the larynx literally remains unchanged through the period of the child’s life, extending from the age of six to fourteen or fifteen years.
On the contrary, soft singing promotes quiet habits of breathing; and, if the pressure of air at the larynx is moderate, soft tone is possible.
In passing the voice from one register to another, the larynx changes its mechanism and calls into play a different form of vibration.
Sound-vibrations generated at the larynx are modified as to their form, by the size and shape of the resonating cavities of the mouth and pharynx.
While it tells unerringly of any departure from the normal, or of pathological change in the larynx, it does not tell whether the larynx belongs to the greatest living singer or to one absolutely unendowed with the power of song.
The growth of the larynx goes on, with greater or less rapidity, varying in different individuals, for from six months to two or three years, until it attains its final size.
Above the vocal bands, another pair of membranous ligaments are stretched across the larynx forming, with its sides and the vocal bands, a pouch or pocket.
In boys, the larynx doubles in size, and the vocal bands increase in the proportion of five to ten in length.
In those cases, where the larynx undergoes a slow change in growth, it is often possible for the boy to sing all through the period of change.
That's the larynx under the operation of grammatical rules.
What you want to do is to shake up the larynx by feeding it with new forms of expression.
The larynx is broad above, where it presents a triangular appearance, flattened behind and at the sides.
An expectoration of blood, due to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the bronchi, trachea, or larynx and from erosion or rupture of capillaries in lung cavities.
When the head is drawn back, the larynx is lifted, and when the chin approaches the chest the larynx is depressed.
The arteries that supply the larynxare the laryngeal arteries, branches of the superior and inferior thyroid arteries.
The larynx is the organ of voice, placed at the upper part of the air passage.
There is granular degeneration in the kidney, ulceration of the larynx and sometimes congestion of the lung.
Until puberty there is no marked difference between the larynx of the male and that of the female.
In the male after puberty all the cartilages increase in size, and the larynx becomes prominent as the Adam's apple in the middle line of the neck.
These are not at all essential to the formation of vocal sounds, for they have been injured, in those lower animals whose larynx resembles that of man, without materially affecting their characteristic cries.
That speech is not necessarily due to the action of the larynx is proven by the following simple experiment.
The framework of the larynx is composed of four cartilages, which render it at once very strong and sufficiently flexible to enable it to move according to the requirements of the voice.
The instrument by which thelarynx may be examined in the living subject.
A leaf-shaped piece of cartilage which covers the top of the larynx during the act of swallowing.
In the production of the articulate sounds of speech, the larynx is not directly concerned, but those sounds really depend upon alterations in the shape of the air-passages above that organ.
Between the true and false vocal cords is a depression on each side, which is termed the ventricle of the larynx (Fig.
The interior of the larynx is lined with a very sensitive mucous membrane, which is much more closely adherent to the parts beneath than is usually the case with membranes of this description.
Over the opening of the larynx is found the epiglottis, which fits like the lid of a box at the entrance to the lungs, and closes during the act of swallowing, so that food and drink shall pass backward to the oesophagus, or gullet (Fig.
The principles of the action of the larynx are easily illustrated by reference to the simpler musical instruments.
Intubation consists in introducing through the mouth into the larynx a tube which allows the patient to breathe freely during the period while the membrane is becoming separated and thrown off.
The mucous membrane of the larynx may be the seat of mucous patches or of catarrh, and as a result the child's cry is hoarse.
In the tongue the tertiary ulcer may prove the starting-point of cancer; and in the larynx or rectum the healing of the ulcer may lead to cicatricial stenosis.
After fractures of costal cartilage or of the cartilages of the larynx the cicatricial tissue may be ultimately replaced by bone.
At once a gleam of intelligence shot across the Indian's face, and his larynx vibrated to similar sounds.
Del had come into the world with lungs of leather and larynx of brass, and when he thus jerked out the stops the Scotsman quailed and shrank down.
The larynx is exquisitely ticklish, and, in response to any adequate stimulus, energy is discharged in the production of a vigorous cough.
And having thus become our boast, the wonder of our age, he battles with hislarynx most, and elevates the stage.
Why should thelarynx be modified in one mammal, the teeth in another, the nose in another?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "larynx" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alveolus; apex; back; blade; larynx; lips; palate; pharynx; teeth; tip; tongue
