Surrounding the voice box (and the doctors in this room will bear this out) is what is known as the glottis wall. From Wordnik.com. [Up the EmpireInterbreeding for a Better World] Reference
As the air rushes past the glottis, which is still partially closed, a sound recalling the whoop of pertussis is heard. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Yes, my glottis is vibrating which makes it a/b/rather than a/p/-- 'voiced' rather than 'voiceless'. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
In this way you will avoid the stroke of the glottis which is caused by the sudden and uncontrolled emission of the accumulated breath. From Wordnik.com. [Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing] Reference
He than closes his glottis and contracts the muscles. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Remedies for Curing Cough] Reference
This constriction of the larynx is called the glottis. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
V-shaped aperture (the glottis), the narrow part being in front. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
For instance, if it is necessary that the glottis be contracted to. From Wordnik.com. [Stammering, Its Cause and Cure] Reference
A spasmodic closure of the glottis which interferes with respiration. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The air within and external to the lungs communicate at the open glottis. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The false cords do not produce sound, but they aid in the closing of the glottis. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
But when sound is being produced, the glottis is almost completely closed by the cords. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
It started with the facial muscles, then moved to the glottis in the back of the throat. From Wordnik.com. [Roses are Red]
Now, if the various muscles of the larynx be relaxed, the opening of the glottis is wider. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Watch the tongue: it generally tends to slip back, and to shut off the air from the glottis. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
As air is forced through the now much narrower glottis, it causes the vocal folds to vibrate. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Awards announced] Reference
The great majority of cases of the so - called croup are simply cases of spasm of the glottis. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The landrail is like a marsh bird, and the glottis has a tongue that can project far out of its beak. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
The glottis may be inflamed, and if there is danger of asphyxia, tracheotomy may have to be performed. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
A convulsive motion of some of the muscles used in breathing, accompanied by a shutting of the glottis. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
"If the gods had meant for man to survive in free fall, they would have given him a cast iron glottis.". From Wordnik.com. [The Forever War]
In normal breathing these ligaments are slack, allowing air to pass silently in and out through the wide-open glottis. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Awards announced] Reference
With its glottis it made clicks exactly a twentieth of a second long, for ones, and carefully measured pauses, for zeroes. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
That beautiful, dispassionate voice, untouched by human glottis, had never changed in the forty years that he had known it. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountains of Paradise]
Other muscles are connected with the arytenoid cartilages which serve to seperate the vocal cords and to widely open the glottis. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
As we let slip the blow, the glottis opens and the air escapes, often with a curious aspirated sound as is noticeable in workmen. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
When we are about to make a great effort, as in striking a heavy blow, we naturally take a deep inspiration, and shut the glottis. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Its human glottis could "speak" about a third as fast as the artifact had; it lowered the pitch of its sounds by a factor of three. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
The vocal bands, then, lie opposite each other, on a level, raised a little in front, and with a narrow slit between, called the glottis. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
With the glottis now almost closed, blasts of air from the lungs strike the sharp edges of the cords and set them in vibration (Fig. 150). From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
But the glottis is always opened when the chest is dilated at each inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference
In spasms of the glottis, inhalation of sulphuric ether will give quick relief. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Unless a candidate wins by a single vote, glottis 'vote will make no difference to the outcome. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
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