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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

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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.

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• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• CARTILAGE
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• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• VOCALIST
  A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• TRACHEARY
  Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheæ. -- n.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• TRACHEATE
  Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
• VOCALLY
  1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound. 2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.
• VOCALIZATION
  1. The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized. 2. The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
• STRETCHING
  from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
• HYOIDEAL; HYOIDEAN
  See A
• VOCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters. 2. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• JAPAN CURRENT
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• SUBHYOIDEAN
  Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
• PHASING CURRENT
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• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• STERNOHYOID
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• INVOICE
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• PERCURRENT
  Running through the entire length.
• DISCONNECT
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• DISCONNECTION
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• GENIOHYOID
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• FIBROCARTILAGE
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• DELTA CONNECTION
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