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Above them are other folds of mucous membrane called the false vocal cords, which take no part in the production of the voice. The arrangement of the true vocal cords, projecting as they do towards the middle line, reduces to a mere chink the space between the part of the larynx above them and the part below them. This constriction of the larynx is called the glottis.
THE GLOTTIS AND VOCAL CORDS VIEWED FROM ABOVE 1, Glottis. 2, True Cords. 3, False Cords. 4, Epiglottis. 5, Base of Tongue. V, Ventricles. T, Thyroid Cartilage. C, Cricoid Cartilage. W, Windpipe or Trachea. The laryngoscope should not, in fact, leave the hands of the physician.
He lost not a moment, but opened his mouth resolutely, and looked down. "The glottis is swollen," said he: then he felt his hands, and said, with the grave, terrible calm of experience, "He is dying." "Oh, no! no! Oh, doctor, save him! save him!" "Nothing can save him, unless we had a surgeon on the spot.
But the music is not the product of vocal cords, as is the case in the human larynx, for at the upper end of the avian larynx there is a slit or fissure, somewhat elliptical in form, and set in the fork of the hyoid bone, which constitutes the bifurcated root of the tongue. This fissure is called the glottis.
The audible shock of the glottis cannot be avoided when it is necessary to accentuate a word beginning with an initial vowel. Constantly used, however, it is part of the misuse of the voice. Dr. For example in "vous avez," the s of "vous" is drawn over to and pronounced with the a of "avez," the effect being "vou-z-avez."
This paper, "On the Organs of the Human Voice," was read before a meeting of the London Philosophical Society on February 2, 1832. Dr. Bell dispels all the mystery concerning the closure of the glottis, and the holding of the breath against a powerful contraction of the expiratory muscles.
The terms "long reed" and "short reed" were the equivalents of Madame Seiler's "glottis" and "ligamentous glottis" respectively. As the result of the examination of 50 persons gifted with fine voices, 42 of whom were "trained" singers and 8 "natural" singers, Mackenzie formulated his conclusions as follows: 1. Sometimes the whole glottis is open throughout.
Perrin reports a case of an old man of eighty-two who lost his life from the impaction of a small piece of meat in the trachea and glottis. In the Musee Valde-Grace is a prepared specimen of this case showing the foreign body in situ.
The vocal muscles are contracted to an unnatural degree, and every vocal tone is accompanied by an audible shock or spasm of the glottis.
It is essential to correct breathing that the organs of the tract through which the breath passes in and out should at least be known. A narrow slit in the larynx, called the glottis, and where the vocal cords are located, leads into the windpipe, a pliable tube composed of a series of rings of gristly or cartilaginous substance.
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