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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LAR'YNX, n. [Gr.] In anatomy, the upper part of the windpipe or trachea, a cartilaginous cavity, which modulates the voice in speaking and singing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech [syn: larynx, voice box]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural larynges or larynxes) Etymology: New Latin laryng-, larynx, from Greek Date: 1578 the modified upper part of the trachea of air-breathing vertebrates that in humans, most other mammals, and some amphibians and reptiles contains the vocal cords

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. larynges) the hollow muscular organ forming an air passage to the lungs and holding the vocal cords in humans and other mammals. Etymology: mod.L f. Gk larugx -ggos

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Larynx Lar"ynx, n. [?L, from Gr. ?, ?.] (Anat.) The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis. Note: In the framework of the human larynx, the thyroid cartilage, attached to the hyoid bone, makes the protuberance on the front of the neck known as Adam's apple, and is articulated below to the ringlike cricoid cartilage. This is narrow in front and high behind, where, within the thyroid, it is surmounted by the two arytenoid cartilages, from which the vocal cords pass forward to be attached together to the front of the thyroid. See Syrinx.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(larynxes) Your larynx is the top part of the passage that leads from your throat to your lungs and contains your vocal cords. (MEDICAL) = voice box N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

alveolar ridge, alveolus, apex, arytenoid cartilages, back, blade, dorsum, hard palate, lips, nasal cavity, oral cavity, palate, pharyngeal cavity, pharynx, soft palate, speech organ, syrinx, teeth, teeth ridge, tip, tongue, velum, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds, vocal processes, voice box