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Glottis

noun

(pl. glottides, glottises)

The vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated.

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... no orator; he felt when he stood up to speak an odd sensation in the throat, as if the glottis had contracted. He was, in fact, very nervous, and for the first two or three sentences had not the least idea what he had said. But he forced himself to say it—his will overruled his physical weakness. When ...

— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies

... pleasure in seeing in our schoolroom (where the copies he had brought me were hung) that Charity devoid of charity, that Envy who looked like nothing so much as a plate in some medical book, illustrating the compression of the glottis or uvula by a tumour in the tongue, or by the introduction of the operator's instrument, a Justice whose greyish and meanly regular features were the very same as those which adorned the faces of ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... of the glottis which interferes with respiration. Comes on suddenly and usually at night, without much warning. It is a purely nervous disease and may be caused by reflex nervous irritation from undigested food in the stomach or bowels, irritation of the gums in ...

— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... whole body, Rahmer notes other symptoms first mentioned in 1846, which he describes as "bulbaer" in their origin, such as difficulty in controlling the muscles of speech, difficulty in chewing and swallowing, the enfeebling of the muscles of the lips, disturbances in the functions of the glottis and larynx, together with abnormal secretion of saliva. He discredits altogether the diagnosis of Heine's disease as consumption of the spinal marrow, to which Klein-Hattingen in his recent book on Hoelderlin, Lenau and Heine[186] still ...

— Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry • Wilhelm Alfred Braun

Words linked to "Glottis" : organ of speech, glottal, voice box, rima vocalis, vocal organ, speech organ, rima glottidis, larynx