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Larynx

noun

(pl. larynges, larynxes)

A cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech. Synonym: voice box.

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... there be half-ways, occurred a public-house: and really, notwithstanding all our monied neophyte's economical resolutions, his throat was so "uncommon dry," that he needs must stop there to refresh the muscles of his larynx: so, putting down his bundle on the settle, he called for a foaming tankard, and thanking the crock, as his evil wont now was, sat down to drink and think. Here was prosperity indeed, a flood of astonishing good fortune: that he, but a little week ...

— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... the passage of air.] Airpipe — N. air pipe, air tube; airhole^, blowhole, breathinghole^, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand^, trachea; bronchus, bronchia [Med.]; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct^, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe &c (wind) 349; pipe &c (tube) 260; jhilmil^; smokestack. screen, window screen.' artificial lung, iron lung, heart and ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

Words linked to "Larynx" : laryngeal artery, Adam's apple, arytenoid, arteria laryngea, vena laryngea, vocal fold, plica vocalis, vocal band, arytaenoid, laryngeal vein, cartilaginous structure, arytenoid cartilage, laryngeal, vocal organ, vocal cord, upper respiratory tract, glottis, thyroid cartilage, organ of speech, speech organ