Sentences with phrase «by vocal cords»

«Pitch range produced by vocal cords.»

Not exact matches

Some babies are suctioned so vigorously by hospital staff that they «squeak» when they cry due to damage to their vocal cords.

Baby hiccups are caused by a contraction of the diaphragm and the quick closing of the vocal cords.

It is brought on by a number of causes, including vocal cord nodules, cysts and paralysis or intubation upon birth.

Hiccups are caused by contraction of your baby's diaphragm, which is the muscle below her rib cage that controls her breathing, accompanied by closure of the vocal cords.

This wasn't a commentary on the plots; it was a naive attempt to reproduce the sound of the glottal stop of many Native American languages, produced by briefly closing the vocal cords during speech.

Although the pitch depends on the number of times per second the vocal cords collide — ranging from as few as 55 times per second for a low A sung by a bass, to 1,047 times per second for a soprano's high C — the refinement and articulation of the musical notes take place in the singer's throat and mouth.

Those with permanent impairment — usually caused by repeated surgeries or radiation to remove cancerous and noncancerous growths — have scarring and stiffening of the vocal cord mucosa that can lead to a complete loss of the voice.

Vocal cords generate sound waves by vibrating against each other about 100 to 200 times a second — a number that can jump to 1000 times a second for a soprano singing her highest - pitched notes.

Another important aspect of the green - light KTP laser approach, Zeitels adds, is that biopsy and treatment of patients whose cancer involves a single vocal cord usually can be accomplished in the same procedure, whereas radiotherapy requires a prior biopsy to determine the extent and location of the tumor, followed by daily radiation treatments over approximately six weeks.

In addition, Zeitels notes, the treatment's mechanism of eradicating the blood vessels supplying a tumor — highly effective for conventional vocal - cord cancer — is even more useful for treating tumors caused by HPV infection, which are characterized by an excessive overgrowth of blood vessels.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

One theory holds that the rumbles are made only by the elephants» vocal cords, which, like ours, consist of two flaps of flesh in the larynx — though an elephant's larynx is eight times larger than ours.

The researchers also looked at whether the engineered vocal cord tissue would be rejected or accepted by mice that had been engineered to have humanlike immune systems.

As in speech and singing, such strong resonances could only be produced by partially closing the gap between the vocal cords, known as the glottis, say the researchers.

The device detects and translates nerve signals sent by the brain to the vocal cords when we merely think about speaking a sound.

While he works with a crew, guarded by Turkish soldiers, he is confronted by bandits who slit everyone's throat, though Nazaret survives with only a torn vocal cord because the Turkish bandit assigned to kill him shows mercy.

Dogs are often debarked by ramming a steel rod down their throats to rupture their vocal cords.

Dog barking laws often have very severe penalties for the dog and the owner, including taking the dog from the owner, «de-barking» the dog (forced surgical removal of the vocal cords by a surgeon), fines, euthanasia for some dogs, and even jail time for the dog owners.

PURRING or MURMURS The sound of purring is formed by the cat's vocal cords and the muscles of the their larynx.

The dogs are typically de-barked by kennel owners who jam a metal rod down the dog's throat to rupture its vocal cords.

A veterinarian performs the surgery by removing a portion of the vocal cords.

Many commercial dog breeders debark their dogs by cutting their vocal cords with metal pipes.

Surgical canine debarking can be performed by removing the tissues from the sides of the vocal cord or larynx, resulting in a reduced pitch and decreased level of the barking sound.

This can be done either by an approach from the mouth or by making an incision at the throat and then removing tissues from the vocal cord.

One puppy mill bust, filmed by the television show «Animal Cops,» showed a filthy farm with more than 300 dogs silenced by the Amish farmer who «de-barked» them by pushing a pipe down their throats to rupture their vocal cords.

Use the lunch break with your colleagues to get ready for the weekend by warming up vocal cords, guitars, and turntables with upcoming music games DJ Hero and Band Hero.

But now, not satisfied with Tekken and his recent XBLA game Way of the Dogg (in which, by the way, you play a character unironically named America Jones who learns how to reverse time and punch dudes at Snoop's magical Dojo, setting video game narrative back another five years), Snoop Hedgehog is lending his vocal cords to a Multiplayer Announcer voice package for Call of Duty: Ghosts.

The figures of children are decomposed; their lyrical voices halted by pipes ripping through their youthful vocal cords.

You are inhaling oxygen, but exhaling CO2 — to make it even more pathetic — by exhaling the CO2, your vocal cords are using that CO2, to badmouth CO2...?!

Rather than being a vanity procedure, his vocal cords were injected with botox by Dr Steven Zeitels, a laryngeal expert, as a radical procedure to help them heal.