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Glottis

noun

(pl. glottides, glottises)

The vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated.

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... means of investigation. What is this very speech that we are talking about? I am speaking to you at this moment, but if you were to alter, in the minutest degree, the proportion of the nervous forces now active in the two nerves which supply the muscles of my glottis, I should become suddenly dumb. The voice is produced only so long as the vocal chords are parallel; and these are parallel only so long as certain muscles contract with exact equality; and that again ...

— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

Words linked to "Glottis" : voice box, false glottis, vocal organ, speech organ, larynx, organ of speech, rima glottidis, glottis spuria, true glottis, rima vocalis, glottis vera, glottal