- 1喉頭（發聲的那一小盒，不是整段喉嚨）
The larynx is the small, firm part in the front of your throat that makes your voice. Air from the lungs passes through it; two folds of tissue inside come together and shake, and that shaking is your voice. You can feel it if you put your fingers lightly on the bump in your neck and say “ah.” That bump is your larynx — the friendly name is voice box. It is not the whole throat: the throat is the tube; the larynx is the special box sitting in it. The word is more medical and scientific than everyday. A child will say throat; a doctor will say larynx. When the larynx is swollen, talking becomes hard — that illness is .
組成Borrowed from New Latin larynx, from Ancient Greek λᾰ́ρῠγξ, a word already used for the voice box, and also for the windpipe and the throat.
同家族的字
- laryngitisthe illness when the larynx is swollen
- laryngealthe adjective for things of the larynx
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
larynxnoun/ˈlæ.ɹɪŋks/
- 1
anatomybiologymedicineA hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, as it houses the vocal cords, sound production.
- There is one thing, among abundance of others, in Anatomy, which has always much affected me with Admiration, [...] It is the Situation and Elaſticity of the Epiglottis, a ſoft Cartilaginous Cover to the Larynx, or Orifice of the Wind-pipe; that this Epiglottis ſhould, all a Man's life, be drawn up, for the Benefit of Reſpiration, and fall down and ſhut, whilſt every bit we eat, and every drop we drink, paſſes over it into the Gullet and Stomach; and that we ſhould ſo ſeldom have Occaſion to cough up a crum, or drop, that may accidentaly ſlip into the Larynx; [...]
- The larynx is the instrument of the voice, of which the rima glottidis is the immediate organ. [...] The change of the voice from acute to grave at the time of puberty, when the larynx undergoes a remarkable development, as well as its acuteness in females, whose glottis is less by one third than that of man, shew that the size of the aperture has a great influence.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。