Crossword clues for larynx
larynx
- Human voice box
- A rupee trapped in wild cat’s windpipe
- Part of windpipe
- Big cat biting a rabbit's head and part of the throat
- It contains the vocal chords
- Upper part of the windpipe
- Voice source
- Vocal cords locale
- Vocal-cords location
- Vocal-cords locale
- Talk box
- Structure near the thyroid gland
- Organ that produces sounds
- Organ containing the vocal cords
- One end of the trachea
- Need to speak
- Musical organ?
- Home to the phonatory muscles
- Body part important to vocalists
- "Voice box"
- Speech source
- Speaker's aid
- Adam's apple's place
- Pitch maker?
- Language organ
- Adam's apple site
- Pitch producer
- Speaking part
- A cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea
- Contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech
- Voice box
- Site of the vocal cords
- Part below the glottis
- Cat grabbing a rat's head and part of throat
- Organ adjoining ribcage, primarily in feline
- One used to scream at rat, initially, with cat circling
- Oddly ignored ulna: x-rays next part of windpipe
- Where's the sound coming from? Cat getting round a queen
- Wart uncovered in feline voicebox
- A run-through cat that can produce a scream
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
larynx \lar"ynx\ (l[a^]r"[i^][ng]ks; 277), n. [NL. from Gr. la`rygx, la`ryggos.] (Anat.) The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis.
Note: In the framework of the human larynx, the thyroid cartilage, attached to the hyoid bone, makes the protuberance on the front of the neck known as Adam's apple, and is articulated below to the ringlike cricoid cartilage. This is narrow in front and high behind, where, within the thyroid, it is surmounted by the two arytenoid cartilages, from which the vocal cords pass forward to be attached together to the front of the thyroid. See Syrinx.
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."
Wiktionary
n. An organ of the neck of mammals involved in breath control, protection of the trachea and sound production, housing the vocal cords, and that is situated at the point where the upper tract splits into the trachea and the oesophagus/esophagus.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The larynx (plural larynges; from the Greek λάρυγξ lárynx), commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the neck of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals involved in breathing, sound production, and protecting the trachea against food aspiration. It manipulates pitch and volume. The larynx houses the vocal folds (vocal cords), which are essential for phonation. The vocal folds are situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the esophagus.
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.