larynx
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His parents were told he might never walk and might struggle with eating after needing surgery for a floppy larynx.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
When helium flowed through the larynx, the high frequency component rose in pitch, but the low frequency component stayed the same.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026
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
“Or my larynx is about to fall out. I don’t think I’ve ever connected so many calls in one night in my life.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
"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
Without any active neural control, all eight larynges produced self-sustaining oscillations at frequencies between 25 and 30 Hz—suggesting purring doesn’t necessarily require active muscle contractions.
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
They still thought it was worth wearing out their larynxes for the defense on third down.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
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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