Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The opening between the vocal cords at the upper part of the larynx.
- noun The vocal apparatus of the larynx.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anat, the mouth of the windpipe; the opening at the top of the larynx; the chink, cleft, or fissure between the vocal cords.
- noun The reed or tongue of certain ancient musical instruments.
- noun In ornithology, an old name of the greenshank; subsequently taken as the specific name of the same, Totanus glottis; made by Koch in 1816 the generic name of the same, Glottis chloropus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The opening from the pharynx into the larynx or into the trachea. See
larynx .
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- noun anatomy An organ of speech, located in the
larynx , and consisting of the truevocal cords and the opening between them.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated
Etymologies
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Examples
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Surrounding the voice box (and the doctors in this room will bear this out) is what is known as the glottis wall.
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As the air rushes past the glottis, which is still partially closed, a sound recalling the whoop of pertussis is heard.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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Shock, loss of blood, asphyxia from blood entering the air-passages, and œdema of the glottis are the most frequent causes of death soon after the injury.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The glottis is the chink between the true vocal bands.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881
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When coughing, swallowing, vomiting, holding the breath tightly, etc., these folds of mucous membrane close over the true bands, often completely, and thus shut up for the moment the whole of that space between the bands known as the glottis, or glottic chink, to which reference was made in a previous chapter as the space through which the air finally gains access to the lungs.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881
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In this way you will avoid the stroke of the glottis which is caused by the sudden and uncontrolled emission of the accumulated breath.
Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing Enrico Caruso 1897
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It will be noted that Madame Seiler spoke of the vocal bands (cords) proper as the "ligamentous glottis," and included in the "glottis" the arytenoid cartilages themselves, or, at all events, that part of them, their lower anterior angles, known as the vocal processes (or extensions), to which the vocal bands proper are attached.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881
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And I stared at the black hole, the singularity where the glottis should be.
Yard Man Tantra Bensko 2011
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In less than 35 milliseconds the glottis (a tissue flap that guards the entrance to the trachea, or windpipe) closes and produces the characteristic sound as the incoming air is blocked from entering the trachea.
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A parrot can move the tongue, beak, glottis, larynx, and esophagus to create the sounds we make with our lips, as for the letters p, b, and d.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
missanthropist commented on the word glottis
Greek Tongue.
July 11, 2008