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An irregularly shaped, musculocartilaginous tubular structure, lined with mucous membrane, located at the top of the trachea and below the root of the tongue and the hyoid bone. It is the essential sphincter guarding the entrance into the trachea and functioning secondarily as the organ of voice.

The upper part of the traches, or windpipe; the special organ of the voice.

Laryngeal.

Upper part of trachea or windpipe; organ producing voice.

LARYNGEAL, LARYNGEAN.

Upper part of the windpipe.

The upper part of the windpipe.

The upper part of the windpipe, a cartilaginous cavity, serving to modulate the sound of the voice.

The upper part of the trachea or windpipe.

The apparatus of voice is situate at the superior and anterior part of the neck; and at the top of the trachea, with which it communicates. It is composed of four cartilages, - the thyroid, cricoid, and two arytenoid; is moved by a number of muscles, and lined by a mucous membrane, having certain membranous reflections, constituting the superior ligaments of the glottis, etc. The vessels and nerves of the larynx are called Laryngeal. The larynx is destined to give passage to the air, in the act of respiration, and to impress upon it certain modifications, which constitute voice. Its dimensions vary in different individuals. In men, it is always larger, and situate lower, than in women.

Air-passage and vocal organ between the tongue and trachea.

The organ of voice, situated at the superior anterior part of the neck, below the tongue and the hyoid bone, lying in the median line of the body, and extending down to the trachea. It consists of three single cartilages (the thyroid, the cricoid, and that of the epiglottis) and three paired (the arytenoid, the cornicula laryngis, and the cuneiform cartilages). It contains the vocal bands.

n. [Greek] The upper part of the trachea or windpipe; a cartilaginous cavity serving to modulate the sound of the voice.