larynx
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The laryngeal nerve also connects the brain and larynx, helping control speech and swallowing.
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
She has regular contact with her GP surgery as she is on thyroid medication after having half her larynx removed because of a benign tumour.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 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
This morning, gasping lungfuls of caustic, snow-filled air, he had apparently frozen his larynx.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
They passed air through larynges removed from deceased horses and then alternated the airflow between normal air and helium.
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
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
The patterns matched those in live animals, as seen in an endoscopic video of a chimp waking from anesthesia and other similar recordings of the larynges of rhesus macaques and squirrel monkeys.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 10, 2022
This argument, however, is of no value, because it so happens that birds have two larynges, one at the bottom and the other at the top of the windpipe.
From The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Behnke, Emil
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
Jilted Cavs fans summoned every ounce of strength from their larynxes to jeer him into oblivion.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
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 Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)
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