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What is "voice box"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
voice box
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Christopher Ray began to choke and turn blue after the candy-coated ball lodged in his voice box.
▪ He can move his head and hands and talk through a voice box fitted over his vocal cords.
▪ He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch.
▪ I wanted all those wonderful colors to collide in ways that could blow your voice box right off.
▪ Still partially paralysed by the brain disease Guillain-Barre syndrome, he can only speak with the aid of an artificial voice box.
▪ They can speak, via a whirring mechanical voice box, and they have mechanical human hands rather than paws.
Wiktionary
voice box

n. 1 (context informal English) larynx 2 electrolarynx; mechanical larynx; throat back 3 talk box

WordNet
voice box

n. a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech [syn: larynx]

Wikipedia
Voice box

Voice box may refer to:

  • The larynx (plural larynges), colloquially known as the voice box, an organ in the neck of land vertebrates involved in protection of the trachea and (in some of them) sound production
  • A mechanical larynx, used by people who have lost their voice box due to disease or smoking-associated ailments
  • A talk box, a musical sound effects device that allows a musician to modify the sound of a musical instrument by changing the shape of the mouth
  • VoiceBox Technologies, a company focused on speech recognition and voice search

Usage examples of "voice box".

There was an alien there, its lower voice box speaking precise, educated English, like a video announcer.

In effect, the central nervous system judges something in the voice box to be more of a threat than low oxygen levels in the blood, and acts accordingly.

There was a small mike, a voice box to strap to his own throat, and a flat disk.

Thus, for example, the autosomes will give you a voice box, and the sex hormones will determine whether it's going to be a deep male voice or a high female voice.

The long, tufted ears reminded him of a bat's ears, and he suspected he'd mined the creature's voice box when he slit its throat, so there was no way to confirm its ability to use echolocation like a bat.