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Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.

The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing.

A bird having a mesomyodous larynx.

Having the intrinsic muscles of the larynx attached to the middle of the semirings.

Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx.

one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.

To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. Sir T. Browne.

Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.

Situated below the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx below the true vocal cords.

Situated above the glottis; -- applied to that part of the cavity of the larynx above the true vocal cords.

The lower larynx in birds.

iffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.

Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.

Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.

roid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal. Thyroid cartilage. See under Larynx. -- Thyroid body, or Thyroid gland (Anat.), a glandlike but ductless body, or pair of bodies, of unknown function, in the floor of the mouth or the region of the larynx. In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular orga…

A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See Heart.

Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide…

is narrowed. Voiced stop, Voice stop (Phon.), a stopped consonant made with tone from the larynx while the mouth organs are closed at some point; a sonant mute, as b, d, g hard.

near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound. See Whisper, n.

The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.