Sentences with word «voicebox»

Simpler organs such as windpipes and voicebox tissue have been built and transplanted into people with varying levels of success, but not without controversy (see «Rocky road to replacement organs «-RRB-.

In a similar vein, Mukherjee's rubber bird voicebox suggested that birds might be using an as - yet - undiscovered muscle to produce sound.

Jamie Bell, speaking through his officially licensed Elijah Wood voicebox, conveys Tintin's innocence, excitability, and cool confidence well without making him cocky, and I never heard Daniel Craig (or James Bond) coming out of Sakharine's mouth.

Members of the public who would like to be part of the SCSP pilot programme will need to be registered with the Cat Welfare Society as a caregiver and make bookings for sterilisation at the participating clinics through our Catsnip voicebox 7000 - CATSNIP (7000-2287647) or email [email protected]

The larynx (plural larynges), or voicebox, is an organ in the neck of mammals involved in protection of the trachea and sound production.

The four electrodes were poised above a region called the HVc, known to be part of the bird's song production system, or another region called the RA, a subordinate region that receives input from the HVc and activates the muscles of the syrinx — the bird's voicebox.

Further, the configuration of the human larynx is novel among primates: The voicebox has evolved downward, and half the tongue is lodged in the throat, giving us an exquisite ability to articulate — particularly the vowels so important for speech.

It's unclear what type of throat cancer Moran had, but the term is usually used to describe either cancer of the larynx (also known as the voicebox) or the pharynx (the upper portion of the throat, behind the mouth and nasal cavity).

The thyroid is a small butterfly - shaped gland inside the neck, located in front of the trachea (windpipe) and below the larynx (voicebox).

His voicebox leaps, crouches and sings with a size more befitting the scale of a Middle - earth blockbuster than this low - key cartoon.

Everted laryngeal saccules — these are pouches of tissue near the voicebox that can be sucked into the airway as the cat breathes.

How cats purr remained a mystery for many years but now is understood to be a collaborative effort between the laryngeal (voicebox) muscles and diaphragm with a regular pattern of electrical stimulation occurring 20 to 30 times a second!

Many of these dogs develop secondary laryngeal (voicebox) collapse and this can make their symptoms worse.

This puts the dog's trachea (windpipe) and larynx (voicebox) in harm's way.

Everted Laryngeal Saccules Laryngeal Saccules are small pouches that are located behind the larynx, or voicebox.

When I was about 5 my mom told me that if I didn't stop talking so much my voicebox would wear out.