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a soft pipe doing double duty: keeping you breathing while letting you swear at traffic.
means The front part of the neck containing the passages for food and air, through which you swallow, breathe, and speak.
from From Old English 'throte' or 'throtu,' a word for this part of the body that has stayed remarkably stable through the centuries. It's tied to a Germanic family of similar words and may share a deep ancestor with terms for swelling or protrusion — fitting, since the throat is the visible bulge at the front of the neck. The same root surfaces in 'throttle,' which originally meant to seize someone by the throat before it ever described an engine's air supply.
- voice box
- vocal cords vibrate up to 1000 times per second
- epiglottis
- a flap that stops food drowning your lungs
- swallowing
- happens around 600 to 900 times daily
- adam's apple
- just cartilage protecting the voice box, no fruit
- frog throat
- frogs hear through their lungs and throat skin
sahara dust storms — dust particles lodge in throat and respiratory system during annual saharan dust events affecting millions across africa and beyond
golden gate strait — narrow 3-mile throat connecting san francisco bay to the pacific ocean, controlling all water flow between them
throat singing — mongolian khoomei technique producing multiple pitches simultaneously from single throat, practiced for centuries in central asia