"Glottis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Magendie to a hautboy, Despiney to a trombone, Diday to a hunting-horn, Savart to a bird-catcher's call, Biot to an organ-pipe, Malgaigne to the little instrument used by the exhibitors of Punch, and Ferrein to a spinet or harpsichord. The last-named compared the lips of the glottis to the strings of a violin; hence was given the name Vocal Cords, which they have since retained. The current of air was the bow, the exertion of the chest and lungs the hand which carried the bow, the thyroid cartilages the points d'appui, ...
— The Mechanism of the Human Voice • Emil Behnke
... a solemn silence, during which nothing was heard but a convulsive working about the chest and glottis of the foreman, who ...
— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... generative organs to propagate. The mind not only moves the externals in these ways but the internals, too, in their whole series, outmosts from inmosts and inmosts from outmosts. Thus while moving the mouth to speak, it moves lungs, larynx, glottis, tongue and lips at the same time, each separately to its especial function, and the ...
— Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence • Emanuel Swedenborg |
