Mary Steenburgen

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

American Actress

Roman Jakobson

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.

Russian Scientist

John Millington Synge

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

Irish Poet

Jeffrey Donovan

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

American Actor

The larynx is essential for breathing, swallowing, and speaking, highlighting its role in human biology.

Anatomy Context

Discussions about the larynx are common in medical settings, especially in issues related to voice or throat.

Health Care

The larynx houses the vocal cords; damage to it can affect one's ability to speak clearly.

Speech Production

 How do we know what's going on? Well, we look at the voice box, or larynx, and we see -- this is from a baby whale so it's much smaller. You see this little u-shaped thing I've outlined in blue. That's the part that's vibrating. It's kind of like our vocal folds. When I put my hand in there, where that blue sleeve is, you can see there's a sack underneath it.

How whales breathe,...

 A person would string these sounds together using their larynx, the organ at the top of their windpipe. It consists of rings of muscles and a vibrating membrane that controls airflow. They’d finely shape the vocalization into enunciated words using their tongue and lips.

Why can parrots talk? -...

 to use sound to perceive their environment they use echolocation now what I mean by echolocation the emitter sound from their larynx out to their mouth or through their nose this sound wave comes out and it reflects and echoes back of

The secret of the bat...

 But one other extremely unique thing about bats is that they are able to use sound to perceive their environment. They use echolocation. Now, what I mean by echolocation -- they emit a sound from their larynx out through their mouth

Emma Teeling: The secret...

 they're really not under frequency analysis they're almost identical what's interesting about the cats purr is that it's not just generated by the larynx it's generated by the diaphragm right here that muscle that helps you breathe

Why Do Cats Purr? PIPE Nora...

 could paralyze your larynx in which case you're not coming back dill was connected to an emergency rope that ran up to the surface and lowered himself into the water and then he was all alone suspended in freezing water at the top

A Man of the World PIPE...

 to intuitively play our internal instruments. This process is the same from your first words to your last, but as you age, your larynx ages too. During puberty, the first major shift starts, as your voice begins to deepen.

Why does your voice...

 And the larynx is the site of your voice. When baby humans are born today, their larynx is not descended yet. That only happens at about three months old. So, metaphorically, each of us here

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 and recuperation. The doctors took a fibula bone from my leg and some tissue from my shoulder to fashion into a new jaw. My tongue, larynx and vocal cords were still healthy and unaffected.

Roger Ebert: Remaking my...

 Alright. So what you can see there, that's the base of the tongue. The side walls of the screen, that's the pharynx. All muscle walls, and in the deep, dark decks is the larynx.

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