Sentences with phrase «vocal cords»

He has been diagnosed with vocal cord paralysis, a rare nerve condition that affects his ability to speak.

However, this is not surprising, because vocal cord tissue normally takes time to mature, the researchers said.

This means that it will only turn on and correct your dog when it feels the vibrations of your dog's vocal cords in combination with its bark.

The results may help surgeons repair damaged vocal cords.

A novel set of breathing techniques developed at National Jewish Health help athletes overcome vocal cord dysfunction and improve performance during high - intensity exercise.

One set of human vocal cords looks much like another, except that men's are slightly bigger than women's.

In some cases, patients may temporarily experience vocal cord paralysis following a car accident.

The scientists then put the engineered vocal cord tissue to the test.

A robot with artificial vocal cords resembling those of a 6 - month - old child has been created.

For that matter, human vocal cords closely resemble those of other species.

With plants it's not air over vocal cords, but carbon compounds released into the air.

We encourage you to do this with an object, not your own vocal cords, as you don't want to risk your cat being afraid of you.

The development of real human vocal cord tissue is not complete until a person is about 13 years old, they said.

An illustration of the concept that a pair of human vocal cords can produce the same range of frequencies as a piano.

Post surgery, there is a major risk of vocal cord tissue regrowth, or «webbing» which can lead to future respiratory problems.

Since other diagnoses such as vocal cord dysfunction, de-conditioning, over-training and cardiac abnormalities can present similar symptoms, it is important to rule them out.

Phantom Pain, vocal cord parasites, race and revenge, and of course, Moby Dick too.

«Pitch range produced by vocal cords.»

To give you an idea of how far I retreated into my shell, I have a vivid memory of a moment in which, senior year, I spoke to the guy who had a locker next to mine since middle school and he seemed genuinely surprised I had working vocal cords.

The outspoken veteran comedian, loved and loathed the world over for her witty, cut - to - the - bone humor, died on Sept. 4, 2014, in her native New York City a week after she went into cardiac arrest during vocal cord surgery.

In about two weeks, the cells grew together and formed a tissue that «felt like vocal cord tissue,» Welham said in a statement.

Jean - Louis Trintignant as Silenzio, an avenging gunman whose vocal cords were cut, in Sergio Corbucci's «The Great Silence.»

But Titze's investigations into vocal cord structure also reveal something more primitive.

A sore throat can be the first sign of a cold, a side effect of strained vocal cords, or an indication of something more serious (like strep throat).

Blisters, calluses, and even hemorrhages affect vocal cords, all impeding a singer's sound.

Sign language and computer keyboards are used in primate language research because non-human primates lack vocal cords and other human speech organs.

(There's actually a correlation between relaxed, open vocal cords and a relaxed, open cervix.)

They took cells from those tissue samples and successfully grew them on a three - dimensional scaffold to produce new vocal cords.

For the study, the researchers first collected vocal cord tissue from four people who had their larynges removed for unrelated reasons, and from one human cadaver.

The lovers at hand: Marianne Lane (the incomparable Tilda Swinton) is a singer with shredded vocal cords.

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

Researchers have grown vocal cord tissue in the lab, and it works — the tissue was able to produce sound when it was transplanted into intact voice boxes from animals, according to a new study.

Toss in a one - armed CEO, Oklahoma's weather, incompetent employees, a maintenance man without vocal cords, and an unscrupulous attorney, and the little group has their hilarious — and touching — work cut out for them.

After an enforced 10 month hiatus from singing due to vocal cord problems, John Mayer has finally returned to the stage, performing at a benefit concert.

Other exciting developments: Baby's bone marrow begins making white blood cell, the pituitary gland starts to secrete hormones, and your baby's vocal cords form.

By 12 weeks, the end of the first trimester in the pregnancy calendar, your baby is essentially fully formed with all organs including miniscule vocal cords.

A mechanical engineer hopes to restore function to stroke - paralyzed vocal cords, although stimulating the correct nerves could be challenging — and risky

Should bioengineered vocal cords someday be implanted into a human patient, the sound would be far different, due to the other structures present.

The development could one day help those with severely damaged vocal cords regain their lost voices.

Over 2 weeks, they watched as the cells formed a more complex structure that quickly came to resemble natural vocal cords.

Directly transplanting entire vocal cords from donors to patients could also work, but the researchers say their technique offers several advantages.

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.

Scientists implanted the engineered tissue (lighter color on bottom vocal cord) in cadaver dog larynges to test how well it vibrated and produced sound.

He started by ruling out the simplest explanation: Bad singers just have bad vocal cords (more accurately, vocal «folds»).

I answered, «No,» which was the truth: People with immovable vocal cords are poor conversationalists.

At this year's ABEA annual meeting the researchers received the organization's Broyles Maloney Award for their successful development of this innovative, minimally - invasive strategy for treating vocal cord cancer.

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.

One reason, Hunter suggests, is that women generally have shorter vocal cords and a smaller larynx, giving them higher - pitched voices.