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the muscular gatekeeper that turns mere air into laughter, lies, and entire languages
means The larynx is the hollow, muscular structure in your throat that houses the vocal cords and produces sound while guarding the airway.
from Straight from Greek larynx (genitive laryngos), meaning the upper windpipe. Greek anatomists used it for this very organ, and it passed through Latin into the medical vocabulary of the modern languages unchanged in spirit — a word that has, fittingly, kept its voice for over two thousand years.
- voice box
- folds vibrate up to 1,000 times per second
- drops at puberty
- male larynx lowers, deepening the voice noticeably
- airway guard
- slams shut to keep food from your lungs
- adam's apple
- that bump is just the thyroid cartilage
- whisper trick
- whispering skips the folds entirely, using only airflow