larynx

larynx englannista suomeksi

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0. Substantiivi

1. kurkunpää

larynx englanniksi

1. A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, because it houses the cords, sound production.

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2. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Roberts (printer)|James Roberts(nb...)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0RfAAAAcAAJ|page=29–30|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0RfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA30|oclc=1103159737|text=There is one thing, among abundance of others, in ''Anatomy'', which has always much affected me with Admiration, ... It is the Situation and Elaſticity of the ''Epiglottis'', a ſoft Cartilaginous Cover to the ''Larynx'', or Orifice of the Wind-pipe; that this ''Epiglottis'' ſhould, all a Man's life, be drawn up, for the Benefit of Reſpiration, and fall down and ſhut, whilſt every bit we eat, and every drop we drink, paſſes over it into the Gullet and Stomach; and that we ſhould ſo ſeldom have Occaſion to cough up a crum, or drop, that may accidentaly ſlip into the ''Larynx''; ...

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4. (quote-book) ''et al.''|volume=XX|column=1|oclc=1857697|passage=The differences in the voices of man and woman cannot but have been always obſerved; and their larynxes exhibit, on a merely ſuperficial inſpection, a great diſproportion in ſize.

5. (quote-journal); Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman,(nb...); William Wood,(nb...)|volume=XVI|page=502|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=H5NaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA502|oclc=1131684322|text=I hope to be understood as not implying that there is no peculiarity of the larynges and tracheæ, except in some genera; for I believe all have the admirable mechanism of the organ of voice differently constructed, with corresponding muscles, and distribution of nerves, producing those various modulations of sound so familiar to us, and destined for the excitement of love, as well as for other purposes.

6. (quote-book)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|U.S. Government Printing Office|volume_plain=part 7 (Members of Congress, Interested Individuals and Organizations)|page=259|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgDAbMsYarsC&pg=PA259|oclc=960767929|text=The work on larynx transplantation has been discussed in the previous paragraphs. Corollary to this is the possible development of an artificial larynx which can be implanted just as an artificial heart might be implanted. Design of such larynxes might permit a quick solution to the problem of tissue rejection.

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8. (quote-book)|section=6: Pharynx, Larynx, Trachea, and Esophagus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_2-PBQAAQBAJ|page=350|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_2-PBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA350|column=2|isbn=978-0-323-35671-8|text=Study of intubated larynges from infants of 22 to 40 weeks' gestation who survived a few hours to 300 days showed acute injury was almost invariable, and up to 100% of the subglottic epithelium was lost within a few hour of intubation, but progression of injury was relatively short-lived.

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