Younger speakers are increasingly using glottal stops to separate words. 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Laryngoscopy 1:02 Glottis and Glottal Stop 2:18 Hard Attack 3:28 German Glottisschlag 4:59 Smooth Old RP ...

The lump you feel isn’t actually a lump, but the feeling of opposing muscles in your throat—specifically the glottis, or the ...

The larynx has three sections. The vocal cords are in the middle area, known as the glottis. The top of the larynx above the vocal cords is the supraglottis, and the bottom part beneath the vocal ...

Your larynx holds your vocal cords. You can get laryngeal cancer in your: Glottis, or the area that contains your vocal cords Supraglottis, the area above your glottis Subglottis, the area below ...

Survival rates for laryngeal cancer vary, depending on whether the cancer starts in your glottis and whether it spreads to other tissues or organs. Laryngeal cancer happens when cancerous cells ...

While his secretary telephoned frantically for Lord Dawson of Penn, Dom Manoel’s diseased glottis continued to swell & swell until it blocked his windpipe, choked him to death. Had Dom Manoel ...

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But other research has suggested that the sound is actually produced by laryngeal muscles, which are responsible for moving the vocal cords and opening and closing the glottis (space between the ...