Sentences with phrase «vocal larynx»

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Spasmodic dysphonia causes involuntary movement of the larynx that can lead to extensive vocal strain.

At around 4 to 6 weeks, there are changes in the baby's nervous system that involve the vocal cords and the voice box (larynx).

Monkeys and apes are unable to learn new vocalizations, and for decades it has been widely believed that this inability results from limitations of their vocal anatomy: larynx, tongue and lips.

And I created organs — such as the lungs, trachea, and larynx — with vibrating vocal chords, as well as nose and mouth cavities for resonance.»

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

The sound box in which exhaled air becomes musical notes is the larynx — the tip of which forms the Adam's apple — a cartilaginous shell that contains and protects the vocal cords.

According to Ingo Titze, director of the National Center for Voice and Speech at the University of Utah, vocal cords are able to produce a wide range of sound frequencies because of the larynx's ability to stretch vocal cords and the cords» molecular composition.

The larynx houses the vocal cords, and is situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the esophagus.

In the human voice box, or larynx, air from the lungs is pushed past the vocal cords, which then start moving back and forth sideways like a flag fluttering in the wind.

• Limit your intake of drinks that contain alcohol or caffeine, which can cause the body to lose water and make the vocal folds and larynx dry.

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 larynx plays an important role in speaking and swallowing, but most importantly in breathing: when you breathe, the muscles of the larynx pull the vocal cords apart so that air can flow into the lungs.

To see if the engineered vocal cord tissue could generate sound, the investigators transplanted the tissue into larynges that had been taken from dogs, which are anatomically similar to human larynges.

The phasegram was created based on a series of measurements taken at equally spaced time intervals of ca. 0.02 ms, representing the vibration of the vocal folds within the larynx (see Fig. 1).

Fig. 1: Short portion (160 ms) of the analyzed time series data, representing the vibration of the vocal folds within the deer larynx.

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.

But geckos are the only reptiles that make distinct vocal sounds, and U. fimbriatus's especially well - developed larynx allows it to make a wide variety of barks, droning hums, and even screams.

The larynx is the part of the respiratory system that contains the vocal cords.

There is no specific purr structure, but it is thought to originate in the larynx and vocal folds.

The laryngeal saccules are the small structures located on either side of the larynx, in between the vocal chord folds.

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

Upper respiratory tract problems are common in those dogs who undergo vocal cordectomy, due to scar formation at the edge of the voice box or larynx.

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.

While speech is inherently bodily — sculpted by our hand gestures, larynx, vocal chords, and breath emanating from the lungs — it also divides our understanding of our bodies in the world, creating distinctions that we would not necessarily otherwise perceive.

Simnett's film The Needle and the Larynx (2016), for example, centers around a real medical procedure meant to lower a patient's vocal register by injecting their larynx with Larynx (2016), for example, centers around a real medical procedure meant to lower a patient's vocal register by injecting their larynx with larynx with Botox.

«In the larynx the vocal cords were normal, but outside there were these fleshy lips,» said David Reby, a researcher at the University of Sussex in England who was involved with the study, described in the journal Current Biology.

Vocal intonation is a version of eye - hand coordination, although in this case it's the ear - larynx combo that's key.