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.