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Definition: Larynx |
LarynxNoun1. A cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "larynx" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An irregularly shaped, musculocartilaginous tubular structure, lined with mucous membrane, located at the top of the trachea and below the root of the tongue and the hyoid bone. It is the essential sphincter guarding the entrance into the trachea and functioning secondarily as the organ of voice. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The larynx is an organ in the neck of mammals involved in control of breathing, protection of the airway and sound production. The organ is situated at the point where the upper tract splits into the trachea and the esophagus.The larynx rests in a frame of cartilage bound by ligaments and muscle. At the front is the thyroid cartilage creating the prominence of the Adam's apple in humans. Below the thyroid cartilage is a ring-shaped cartilage called the cricoid which forms the connection to the traches. Above the larynx is a supporting bone called the hyoid, which moves the larynx during swallowing. The epiglottis is another cartilage that extents upwards behind the back of the tongue and projects down through the hyoid bone.
Within the larynx there is the supraglottis at the top, consisting of the epiglottis, the aryepiglottic folds, the false vocal cords and the ventricle. In the middle is the glottis, within which are the two true vocal folds (also called vocal cords), thin muscular strips coated in mucosa. One end of the folds is joined to the thyroid cartilage at the anterior commissure, the other end of each fold is joined to the arytenoid cartilage which move within the posterior cricoid, muscles attached to the arytenoid pull the folds apart during breathing and brings them close together during sound production. The lowest portion of the larynx is the subglottis.
During swallowing the larynx (and the epiglottis) close to prevent swallowed material entering the lungs, there is also a strong cough reflex to protect the lungs. Sensation is transferred by the superior laryngeal nerve (glottis and supraglottis) and the recurrent laryngeal nerve (subglottis and muscles), both branches of the vagus nerve.
Sound pitch and volume are created in the larynx, while articulation of the sound derives from the use of teeth, tongue, palate, and lips.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Larynx."
Synonym: LarynxSynonym: voice box (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Airpipe | Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Line drawing showing nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea, pleura, bronchi, etc. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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J. M. 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. |
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Health | It involves looking directly at the larynx. (references) | |
Mucus drainage also can irritate the membranes lining your larynx (upper windpipe). (references) | ||
When the larynx is injected, bleeding and laryngeal edema, hoarseness, breathiness, and even aspiration may follow. (references) | ||
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| "Larynx" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Larynx" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 76 | 38,217 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "larynx": pneumatic larynx. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
larynx | 141 | injury larynx | 2 |
cancer of the larynx | 60 | larynx pharynx | 2 |
larynx anatomy | 12 | larynx pediatric | 2 |
larynx picture | 10 | larynx model | 2 |
cancer larynx symptom | 7 | function larynx | 2 |
larynx transplant | 5 | larynx neonatal | 2 |
larynx artificial | 5 | larynx video | 2 |
larynx spasm | 4 | carcinoma cell larynx squamous | 2 |
amy hancock larynx | 3 | disease of the larynx | 2 |
larynx problem | 3 | larynx muscle | 2 |
articial larynx | 3 | larynx tubularia | 2 |
diagram larynx | 3 | inflammation larynx | 2 |
disorder larynx | 3 | larynx tumor | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "larynx"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | laring (windpipe), lëfyt (neck, spout, throat), gurmaz (esophagus, gullet, oesophagus, pharynx), fyt (drink, gizzard, gullet, gulp, pharynx, throat). (various references) | |
Arabic | حنجرة (crag, gullet, throat, throttle), حلق (aspire, circle, ear ring, fauces, flatten out, flit, float, fly, fly off, gorge, gullet, hawk about, pharynx, plane, ring, rise, shaving, soar, take off, throat, tower, trim). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ларинкс. (various references) | |
Chinese | 喉 (throat), 喉 (throat). (various references) | |
Czech | hrtan. (various references) | |
Danish | larynx, strubehoved, strube (throat). (various references) | |
Dutch | strottehoofd. (various references) | |
Esperanto | laringo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | barkakýli. (various references) | |
Farsi | حنجره , حلقوم , خرخره , خشک نای . (various references) | |
Finnish | kurkunpää. (various references) | |
French | larynx. (various references) | |
German | Kehlkopf (laryngeal), Larynx. (various references) | |
Greek | λάρυγγασ, λάρυγγας, λάρυγξ (throat, weasant, windpipe). (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'רון (gullet, neck, throat), 'ר'רת (adam's apple, throat, trachea, windpipe). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gége (gorge, laryngeal, throttle), gégefő. (various references) | |
Indonesian | laring, pangkal tenggorokan. (various references) | |
Italian | laringe. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 喉 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "うとう (aloof, bald-headed, bow deeply, demotion, goodpitching, high class, high grade, highbrow, kowtow, oral, oral answer, political party, red light, steep price rise, sudden price jump, the imperial line, transcendent). (various references) | |
Norwegian | strupehode. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arynxlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | laringe (fauces). (various references) | |
Romanian | laringe. (various references) | |
Russian | гортань (throat, voice box). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | grkljan. (various references) | |
Spanish | laringe. (various references) | |
Swedish | larynx, struphuvud. (various references) | |
Thai | กล่องเสียง. (various references) | |
Turkish | gırtlak (gorge, gullet, guttural, laryngeal, maw, pharyngal, pharyngeal, throat). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kekirdek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гортань (throttle), глотка (fauces, gorge, pharynx). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "larynx": larynxes. (additional references) | |
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"Larynx" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: larnyx, laryn, laryng, larynxx, Lorieux. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "larynx" (pronounced le"ringks) |
| 6 | -e" r i ng k s | pharynx. |
| 4 | -i ng k s | Hijinks, hyperlinks, nasopharynx, tiddlywinks. |
| 3 | -ng k s | banks, blanks, blinks, brinks, bunks, chinks, chunks, clunks, cranks, drinks, drunks, dunks, finks, flanks, flunks, francs, Franks, funks, Hanks, hunks, inks, jinks, jinx, kinks, links, Lynx, minks, monks, phalanx, pinks, planks, pranks, punks, ranks, rinks, shanks, shrinks, sinks, skinks, skunks, sphinx, stinks, tanks, thanks, thinks, trunks, winks, yanks. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-n-r-x-y" | |
-1 letter: xylan. | |
-2 letters: aryl, lynx, nary, yarn. | |
-3 letters: any, lar, lax, lay, nay, ran, rax, ray, rya, yar. | |
-4 letters: al, an, ar, ax, ay, la, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-n-r-x-y" | |
+2 letters: larynxes. | |
+4 letters: externally, inexorably. | |
+5 letters: explanatory, externality, exuberantly, luxuriantly. | |
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