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larynx

[lar-ingks] / ˈlær ɪŋks /




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Logically, one might expect it to use the most direct route to connect brain and larynx.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

To confirm the source of the high frequency sound, researchers conducted excised larynx experiments.

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

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

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

Just looking at excised larynges, he says, is “akin to removing the mouthpiece from a wind instrument and analyzing its sounds in isolation.”

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 3, 2023

So Dr. Nishimura’s group removed the larynges from three deceased chimpanzees and attached them to simulated lungs; they did the same with six rhesus macaques that had been euthanized for other approved experiments.

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

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

In the first place, their vocal exhibitions are very different, so much so as to indicate a marked diversity in the organic structure of their larynxes.

From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser




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