larynx
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In most large mammals, deeper voices are expected because the larynx typically grows larger as body size increases.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026
This mechanism works in a way that is similar to a human whistle, except the airflow that creates the sound becomes turbulent inside the horse's larynx rather than at the lips.
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
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
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
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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