Laryngeal in a sentence

It is also worth noting that all muscles are innervated by the recurrent laryngeal branch of the vagus except the cricothyroid muscle, which is innervated by the external laryngeal branch of the superior laryngeal nerve (a branch of the vagus).

The Scandinavian scholar Hermann Möller suggested that they might actually be laryngeal consonants, leading to what is now known as the laryngeal theory.

Christella commented: "Nodules are a common benign laryngeal condition that makes voices sound husky.

Electricity subsidies and financial assistance for photovoltaic installation have started being provided to people with laryngeal cancer thanks to the advocacy of a local charity.

Dr Patel said: “Laryngeal cancer affects the larynx (also called the voice box).

External evidence of propeller scars and a fishing hook was discovered embedded in the laryngeal mucosa at necropsy, indicating repeated human interactions.

A national parks official said Monday the tigers were vulnerable to illness because of inbreeding, leading to laryngeal paralysis causing respiratory failure.

Additionally, intrinsic laryngeal muscles present a constitutive Ca2+-buffering profile that predicts their better ability to handle calcium changes in comparison to other muscles.

Advocates of this theory thought that every single vibration of the vocal folds was due to an impulse from the recurrent laryngeal nerves and that the acoustic center in the brain regulated the speed of vocal fold vibration.

An early supporter was the French linguist Albert Cuny —better known for his role in the development of the laryngeal theory Szemerényi 1996:124.

Bilateral injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve would cause this condition.

Distinctions made in these laryngeal areas are very difficult to observe and are the subject of ongoing investigation, and several still-unidentified combinations are thought possible.

Elements of laryngeal articulation or phonation may occur widely in the world's languages as phonetic detail even when not phonemically contrastive.

Extrinsic laryngeal muscles * Sternothyroid muscles depress the larynx.

Extrinsic The extrinsic laryngeal muscles support and position the larynx within the trachea.

Injury to the external laryngeal nerve causes weakened phonation because the vocal folds cannot be tightened.

In this region, the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the inferior thyroid artery pass next to or in the ligament and tubercle.

Intrinsic The intrinsic laryngeal muscles are responsible for controlling sound production.

It gives rise to the left recurrent laryngeal nerve, which hooks around the aortic arch to the left of the ligamentum arteriosum and ascends between the trachea and esophagus.

Kafka's laryngeal tuberculosis worsened and in March 1924 he returned from Berlin to Prague,sfn where members of his family, principally his sister Ottla, took care of him.