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Language organ
Answer for the clue "Language organ ", 6 letters:
larynx
Alternative clues for the word larynx
- Structure near the thyroid gland
- Organ containing the vocal cords
- A run-through cat that can produce a scream
- A rupee trapped in wild cat’s windpipe
- Oddly ignored ulna: x-rays next part of windpipe
- One end of the trachea
- One used to scream at rat, initially, with cat circling
- Home to the phonatory muscles
- Wart uncovered in feline voicebox
Word definitions for larynx in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Middle French larynx (16c.), from Modern Latin, from Greek larynx (genitive laryngos ) "the upper windpipe," probably from laimos "throat," influenced by pharynx "throat, windpipe."
Usage examples of larynx.
Tiny bright red bubbles roiled up from his exposed larynx, each prismatically ashimmer with filtered sunlight, a hundred miniature rainbows dipped in blood.
Some of the motor fibers supply muscles in the larynx and the throat, and some reach downward to the muscles of the bronchi, to the heart muscle, and to the muscles of most of the digestive tract.
In Terran birds the songs and calls are produced in the syrinx, an organ posterior to the larynx, at the junction of the bronchi and the trachea.
And finally we come to unmistakable diseases of the nose, larynx, bronchi, and lungs, and I am glad to assure you that no examples of these extreme symptoms have presented themselves tonight.
Mr Wright will have to learn oesophageal speech or have an electric larynx fitted, but from what I hear of him he sounds very able to cope with the difficulties.
In fact, observation reveals that we take in no impression of hearing unless we accompany it with an activity of our larynx, even though a silent one.
A fluffy birdling was cute enough until a child engulfed his own larynx with it.
The blade sliced through the windpipe and larynx, nicking the cervical vertebrae.
With a sense of horror, Craig felt the Shana's body gathering for the final thrust that would force the silver steel through his larynx and he knew that he could not prevent it.
Like Drew, the man could kill with one sharp blow to the chest or the larynx.
I have one eye, a scar that bisects my face, a stainless-steel hand, and a Teflon larynx.
His facial nerves were inoperative, and the muscles of his larynx slack.
As blood began to flow from the wound, he jerked the razor across his throat, and watched in shocked awe as his throat gaped open and the flow of blood surged to a pulsing gush as the blade ripped through his larynx and aorta.
The arms had been removed at the shoulder joints by several oblique cuts, and she had been decapitated by several incisions below the larynx.
Even her voice was changing, some kind of acoustic sampling that mimicked a female larynx evolving into a helix, or a Klein bottle.