The team 3D-printed the vocal tract and paired it with an electronic larynx, a device often used to help people suffering from throat or larynx conditions to synthesize clearer speech.
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"The Needle and the Larynx" (2016) is a 15-minute video in which a doctor injects Botox into Ms. Simnett's larynx, which has the effect of lowering the pitch of her voice.
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Maybe evolution hasn't had enough time to tune the larynx.
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But even slight irritation would cause the larynx to spasm.
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In it, no mention is made of an abnormal larynx.
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They combined it with an electronic larynx to reconstruct "the sound that would come out of his vocal tract if he was in his coffin and his larynx came to life again," Dr. Howard said.
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"Cut larynx off," Dahl said, summarizing the end of the process.
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The larynx is controlled by a complicated and interconnected set of muscles.
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"We'll win," said Green, whose larynx might as well be a megaphone.
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It can also reportedly cause cancers of the lung, larynx and ovary.
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How constricted is the larynx, and how does air pass through it?
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Never mind the pain to her larynx, this was painful on the ears.
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Sources connected to the bar described the alleged assault as Carter squeezing Carden's larynx.
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The pitch of your voice comes from your larynx (sometimes called the voice box).
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The patient called his doctor, who checked the larynx and couldn't find the bone.
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This time, doctors found the culprit: A pair of dentures lodged in his larynx.
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You will need to learn new ways to articulate what emanates from your larynx.
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We have a lower larynx that frees up our tongue to change our words incredibly quickly.
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There is also probably evidence of an association for cancers of the mouth, pharynx and larynx.
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It took doctors eight days to discover that his dentures had become lodged in his larynx.
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Rather, before his imprisonment, he had suffered from serious medical problems, including cancer of the larynx.
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"These structures, the larynx and the hyoid bone, are often fractured during homicidal manual strangulation," he wrote.
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The system collects and maps brain signals that trigger movements of the jaw, larynx, lips, and tongue.
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Most bats produce echolocation sounds through their larynx, but some click their tongues or use their nostrils.
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At its edge, an enemy mortar round exploded next to him, sending hot shrapnel through his larynx.
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Ms. Caplan massaged the muscles around his larynx and had him put peppermint oil in his nose.
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Birds, for example, do not have a larynx but a different structure called a syrinx to produce sounds.
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It takes at least 20 years for the larynx, vocal folds and adjoining support structures to finish maturing.
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You can see the lips, tongue, soft palate, and larynx moving together to form words, all in German.
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"I am trying to stay focused," repeats Alicia, using up every last bit of grit in her larynx.
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According to Branchereau, if a boy took cyproterone acetate, it would permanently stunt the development of his larynx.
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The only specific mention the larynx gets is noting that it was not broken, which would indicate strangulation.
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Because of the condition, he was born without a larynx or an airway, said Kilburn, of Adamsville, Tennessee.
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It's an insistent, slightly choked twang both powerful and needy, conjured from somewhere between his nose and his larynx.
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When Sutton arrived, Wade slashed her in the face and neck, cutting her larynx so that she couldn't scream.
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When air passes between a pair of membranes in the larynx, they vibrate like a comb and wax-paper kazoo.
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Since leaving office, the man widely known as simply Lula underwent chemotherapy to treat a malignant tumor in his larynx.
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The 10-song LP unleashes a blitzkrieg of gut-punching blast beats, angular guitar riffs, and maniacal, larynx-shredding vocals.
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It was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who had spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary spasms of the larynx.
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My lungs and larynx couldn't create the air pressure and vibrations needed to say the words floating around my mind.
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A man who had his larynx removed and spoke through an artificial voice box appeared in antismoking ads in 2007.
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Together they provide a framework for the vocal folds, flaps of mucous membrane attached to muscles either side of the larynx.
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A man had dentures lodged in his larynx for over a week after surgery, according to a recently published case study.
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And that in 1983 he had polyps removed from his larynx, and that he had not been able to speak since.
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"He's basically tuning his resonators with his lips, tongue, larynx and jaw to get the desired vocal quality," Ms. Lader said.
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The speaker was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary spasms of the larynx.
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Now the standard therapy is a single dose of corticosteroids, to tamp down inflammation of the larynx, which constricts the airway.
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The World Health Organization wrote that "all types of asbestos cause lung cancer, mesothelioma, cancer of the larynx and ovary, and asbestosis."
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Connor's report found there is strong evidence that alcohol causes cancer of the liver, colon, rectum, esophagus, larynx, pharynx and female breast.
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He scraped away at the larynx with his instruments, but after a while things got tricky: the cartilage had hardened into bone.
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Mr. Hancock got temporary relief from speech therapy, and from injections of Botox into the muscles of his larynx, a standard treatment.
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YouTuber and Australian musician Tom Thum's first episode of his web series "Live from the Larynx" takes place inside his own throat.
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The doctor threads a flexible camera up his nose, past his tonsils and hovers over the larynx to get a good look.
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Before Linda made it home she was raped, then stamped on so brutally that her spine was fractured and her larynx crushed.
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The researchers associated those patterns with the subtle movements of the patient's lips, tongue, larynx and jaw that occur during natural speech.
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When we speak, air is expelled from our lungs, travels up the trachea, through the larynx and out of our mouth and nose.
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As I wrote for Scientific American back in 2011:The most critical component of the vocal tract is the larynx, or voice box.
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Similar experiments could help Reby and his colleagues learn more about the inner workings of the wapiti larynx and vocal cords in action.
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In the hospital, when Tamar hugs David's emaciated body after his larynx has been removed, she wants her father to stay with her.
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G Malcolm Subban will be sidelined a minimum of eight weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a broken larynx, the team announced Thursday.
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It happens when the acid from your stomach splashes up into your esophagus, irritating both your esophagus and the larynx, or voice box.
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Inhalation of water, spasm of the larynx, hypothermia and lung and limb infections are among the hazards physicians were told to watch for.
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"We are facing an uncertain environment," Mongeau said, who has returned to work following treatment for a precancerous soft-tissue tumor in his larynx.
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Cancerous tumors that form on the larynx itself usually cause a change in voice and, if they become large enough, can cause difficulty speaking.
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He found that the hyoid bone, a horseshoe-shaped bone in the neck, was missing its "horns," and the larynx was missing as well.
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Butler County Coroner Andy Moore said the autopsy shows that Girard died from asphyxiation after his larynx was fractured and a neck bone broken.
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Since then, he underwent chemotherapy to treat a malignant tumor in his larynx before revealing, in February 2012, that his cancer was in remission.
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So he's opening everything up: inhaling peppermint oil, making a wing formation with his hands around his larynx, working his tongue around his teeth.
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He takes off his T-shirt to show me a bunch of stab wounds distributed above his kidneys, larynx, and on his upper arm.
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At Bell Labs, he worked on fabricating an inexpensive artificial larynx to help restore speech after surgery and on technology to prevent airplane hijackings.
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But the larynx pain got worse and worse, so another doctor checked him out and realized a bit of bone was still lodged in there.
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Attached to the trachea just behind the Adam's apple, the larynx is made of various types of cartilage and a single bone called the hyoid.
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Like death metal, it involves activating parts of the larynx that usually lie quiet—in this case, the ventricular folds that flank the vocal cords.
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The muscles of the larynx and throat also become paralyzed, and victims are unable to swallow, cough, or clear the suffocating amount of saliva produced.
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Every moment of the game is geared towards making the player feel superhumanly powerful, and I felt it in every snapped neck and crushed larynx.
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Most mammals use the larynx to produce sound and as humans we are able to speak in part because of the motor ability we possess.
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It could also be that the larynx is tuned just well enough for speech and for many of us, singing just asks a little too much.
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At the bottom of this region lies a patch of neurons that sends signals to the muscles of the lips and jaw and tongue and larynx.
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Nothing notable about the beatboxer's anatomy was found, but we do get some really gross imagery of what's going on in the larynx of a beatboxer.
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"The anatomical structures used for producing vocalizations such as the vocal cords, larynx, and mouth cavities are the same for seals and humans," Janik told Gizmodo.
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Those risks multiply for people who both drink and regularly smoke, particularly when it comes to cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus, Connor said.
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That's what it was like for a man who unknowingly had dentures lodged in his larynx for over a week after surgery — only so much worse.
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Read more: Dentists pulled more than 500 teeth from a 7-year-old boy's mouthIt's not immediately clear how the dentures ended up in his larynx.
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She doesn't just sing with her voice but with her whole body, from her larynx to her sinews, veins, and nerves, and especially from her heart.
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"Necropsy findings suggest blunt trauma to the head, and also support the victim's description of strangulation based on petechial hemorrhages to larynx and trachea," the report said.
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Obviously, a little bit of credit needs to go to the opposable thumb and larynx, but fundamentally it's about this massive mashup of ideas that we have.
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Men are four times more likely to be affected by esophagus, larynx, and bladder cancers, while the incidence of melanoma is also 60 percent higher in men.
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Others must be screamed as though a small rodent crawled into your larynx, died, and came back as a zombie rodent with magic rock 'n roll powers.
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That's your Adam's apple, a lumpy piece of cartilage that wraps around your larynx, or voice box, and is considerably more pronounced in men than in women.
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It is prescribed as a treatment for prostate cancer in adult men, where once again a shrunken/feminized larynx is not on the list of side effects.
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"The benefit is that they help restore speech production very quickly and almost as normally as speech was produced when the patient had his/her larynx," she said.
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While London pointed out during cross-examination that the larynx and neck cartilage were not damaged, Persechino said that was not necessary to prove a chokehold was applied.
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It'll take a hell of a lot more than a case of sniffles to enfeeble that larynx, an instrument that's unleashed rock arias for more than four decades.
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Each year, nearly 40,000 Americans die from preventable asbestos-caused diseases such as lung cancer, mesothelioma, cancer of the larynx and ovary and asbestosis (fibrosis of the lungs).
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From Ms. Cattrall's larynx, the words of Samantha slunk and shimmied across the Manhattan of the early aughts, her voice sliding around ribald puns as if extra lubricated.
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The printed airway was then connected to a specialized loud speaker as well as an artificial larynx commonly used to make electronic speech, through which the sound plays.
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Just like singing, whistling makes a continuous range of pitches by passing air over a quivering mass of cells, except that when we whistle, we trade larynx for lips.
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But when a new set of doctors actually looked inside the man's throat, after the man again complained about his symptoms, they quickly spotted something lodged across his larynx.
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He finished his second term in January 2011 with a 90% approval rating, just months before it was announced he would undergo chemotherapy for a malignant tumor in his larynx.
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Lula finished his second term in January 2011 with a 90% approval rating, just months before it was announced he would undergo chemotherapy for a malignant tumor in his larynx.
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Green, whose larynx was as strong as ever, was suspended for a collection of flagrant fouls that included a general failure to avoid punching and kicking opponents in the groin.
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They then built an electronic larynx and reconstructed what would be the sound he'd make if he came to life again, speech scientist David Howard told the New York Times.
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Afterward, she presided over a panel discussion, delving into details about the larynx, the importance of hydration and perhaps more about the vocal mucosa than nonsingers really need to know.
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But he specifically cited two bone fractures on the left and right sides of Epstein's larynx, plus a third fracture on a bone above Epstein's Adam's apple, he told Fox News.
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"We all speak differently, not just because of the size and shape of our larynx, but because of where we grew up, because of our personality," Nuance engineer Brett Beranek says.
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It failed to take into account scientific information on certain types of cancers clearly linked to asbestos, including ovarian cancer; colorectal cancer; and cancers of the stomach, esophagus, larynx and pharynx.
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Subsequent imaging tests found that the force of the man's inward sneeze inadvertently punctured his pharynx, the section of the throat behind the mouth and nose found before the esophagus and larynx.
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Yet the weapons plied by the eight uniformly excellent performers here are nothing more than lips, larynx, lungs and so forth — stuff that most people have been born with for many millenniums.
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I popped in BOLSHOI, CACHE POT and ETCHING, then was able to get some words going in the quote, enough to figure out EDNA FERBER, NIGHTJAR, LARYNX, and then things slowly fell.
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Lead singer Morgan Fox's larynx is no longer coated with blood, Kenneth Draper is working with soft percussive trills rather than relentless bursts of syncopated panic, and guitarist Andy Garcia has disappeared entirely.
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Then in quick succession, your larynx slides up and forward as a separate flap of cartilage called the epiglottis swings down like the lid of a dustbin to close off the larynx's entryway.
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Even without complete knowledge of biological mechanisms [of how alcohol causes cancer], the epidemiological evidence can support the judgment that alcohol causes cancer of the oropharynx, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon, rectum, and breast.
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Respiratory illnesses generally fall into two categories: upper respiratory — infections in the nose, pharynx, or larynx, like the common cold and seasonal influenza; and lower respiratory illnesses, like pneumonia, which infect the lungs.
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"Exposure to asbestos, including chrysotile, causes cancer of the lung, larynx and ovaries, and also mesothelioma (a cancer of the pleural and peritoneal linings) [and] asbestosis (fibrosis of the lungs)," the WHO says.
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But excessive drinking — more than about a drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men — is also linked to several types of cancer, including breast, colon, pharynx, larynx and esophageal.
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Although every FOX News host with a functional larynx seems to believe that the holiday season is the most important time of the year, it's OK to admit that it's just not for you.
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Smoking and alcohol can loosen tension of the upper esophageal sphincter and cause symptoms of reflux like hoarseness, postnasal drip and shortness of breath by irritating the mouth, larynx and trachea, Dr. Aviv reports.
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Some credit should go to the opposable thumb and the larynx, says neuroscientist David Eagleman, but a lot of it has to do with our ability to be creative and constantly think up new ideas.
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N.W.A. Members: MC Ren, Ice CubeThe only single released from 2003's Deuce, the third studio album by former N.W.A. peer The D.O.C., and the second following the car accident that severely damaged his larynx.
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It doesn't have the melody of the similarly larynx-mangling "Best of You," for example, but it works in its way, catching a little off-beat groove when the creepy, chanted backing vocals kick in.
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Language lives not in the mind, but rather in the larynx, the soft pallet, the mouth, and the tongue, and its progeny are the soft serpentine sibilant, the moist plosive, the chest gutturals' heart-burn.
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Some show video from endoscopes that have been threaded through a patient's nose and down the back of the throat until the camera at the end of the flexible tube is hovering just above the larynx.
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Audra McDonald, a six-time Tony winner, does a similar thing, her spine as strong as her larynx, tantalizingly holding something back while appearing not to; both reticent and foot-forward, to borrow a British theaterism.
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They found looking at the intended movements of the tongue, larynx and other speech mechanisms allowed them to reproduce voice sounds in a more reliable way than, say, trying to match brain waves to predicted speech sounds.
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The team took the mummy to the Leeds General Infirmary, where it underwent a CT scan in 2016 to gain all the measurements necessary to reproduce the vocal tract, which curves from your larynx to your lips.
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Spewing 100 minutes of frequently enraged reports from the front line of grief, Spall is asked to sustain a level of vitriol that must be as wearing on his larynx as it risks becoming for the audience.
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The researchers used X-ray videos to capture and then trace the movements of the different parts of a macaque's vocal anatomy, including the tongue, lips, and larynx, as the test subject made various sounds and facial movements.
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Scientists have developed a tool that decodes brain signals for the speech-related movements of the jaw, larynx, lips and tongue and synthesizes the signals into computerized speech, according to a small study published in Nature on Wednesday.
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The cells in parts of the body that are directly exposed to smoke are particularly damaged, with 150 mutations found to occur in lung cells within one year, 97 in the larynx and 39 in the oral cavity.
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The patient "keeps a child's larynx all his life in a man's body," Branchereau told the news agency Agence France-Presse in 2011—though this is not a side effect listed in readily found literature on cyproterone acetate.
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I start to think of the pipe organ working in a similar way to the larynx, lungs, diaphragm, and mouth; each part of the mechanism has its own job to do to contribute to the overall sound emitted.
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The gist of the oncology society announcement is that there is a reasonable amount of evidence finding an association between some cancers (specifically oropharyngeal and larynx cancer, esophageal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, breast cancer and colon cancer) and alcohol.
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And it will fall in an identical accent to this line -- fed to Eliza Doolittle by Henry Higgins during her elocution lessons in My Fair Lady -- if Buckingham Palace gets its hands on the larynx of Meghan Markle.
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"We have a ways to go in terms of the science, but we're looking into what sounds different sizes of dinosaur may [have been] capable of if they had a syrinx or if they had a larynx," Clarke said.
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The device works by using a brain-computer interface (BCI), which works out a person's speech intentions by matching brain signals to physical movements they would usually activate in a person's vocal tract – their larynx, jaw, lips and tongue.
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By the end of the day, he lay in the hospital, in a coma, with three fractured vertebrae, a crushed larynx and his spinal cord nearly severed, while the videos of his arrest began to circulate on social media.
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That Gordon embodied those clichés because he invented or crystallized them in the public imagination is largely forgotten today, nearly 30 years after his death, at 67, in 1990, from kidney failure following treatment for cancer of the larynx.
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The delicate hyoids connect the back of the mouth, or pharynx, to the openings of the esophagus, which is the tube connecting the throat to the stomach, and the larynx, the "voice box" that provides an air passage to the lungs.
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Every time a user of Belafsky's Swallow Expansion Device pulls this titanium rod, a connected plate embedded in the throat mechanically moves the larynx forward and opens the upper esophageal sphincter to allow food or liquid to move into the esophagus.
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He added that he was liaising with Cybersuit—a Russian company developing haptic devices and sensitive electrodes that could be used to keep track of larynx micro-movements associated with inner speech—to add more data to a person's bundle.
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In a piece titled "Heard from Her Larynx: Sandra" (2019), a surreal, hair-covered gramophone plays a recording of Sandra Bland's arrest after a 2015 traffic stop when activated, pointing to the carceral brutalities that led to Bland's death shortly after.
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It's unclear what type of throat cancer Moran had, but the term is usually used to describe either cancer of the larynx (also known as the voicebox) or the pharynx (the upper portion of the throat, behind the mouth and nasal cavity).
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During testimony last week, one of the first witnesses for the prosecution was Carolyn Higdon, a speech pathology expert, who said that injuries to Chambers' mouth and larynx — as revealed in an autopsy — would have restricted her ability to articulate words, WREG reported.
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In court on Tuesday, one of the first witnesses for the prosecution was Carolyn Higdon, a speech pathology expert, who said that injuries to Chambers' mouth and larynx, as shown in an autopsy, would have restricted her ability to articulate words, WREG reports.
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The previous summer, a singer named Androo O'Hearn, from the band Shaolin Death Squad, had taught the group's members to tighten their throats so that their aryepiglottic folds—triangular membranes that encircle the larynx and protect it when swallowing—began to vibrate furiously.
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There are days I ache so badly, the only remedy beyond a proper plowing would be a curved and rusty piece of metal or broken glass to gouge out my hot center from mid-inner thigh all the way up to my larynx.
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Similarly, a tickle in the back of your throat can make you cough: The larynx sends a signal to the vagus nerve, then the brainstem and the spinal cord, where neurons signal the muscles in our chest and abdomen to contract. Ahem.
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Over the course of a year, this means that someone who smokes a pack a day (20 cigarettes) has 150 extra mutations per cell in the lung, 97 per larynx cell, 23 per mouth cell, 18 per bladder cell, and six per liver cell.
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Kids may accidentally inhale objects, but it&aposs rare for these objects to get trapped in the larynx, or voice box, according to the case report, because most of these objects will either continue down into the airways leading to the lungs or be coughed out.
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While the autopsy review by Dr. Michael M. Baden, a former chief medical examiner of New York City, agreed that the cause of death could not be determined, he noted in his report the absence of her larynx and parts of a bone in her neck.
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It's a fairly common practice: in 2006, for instance, the University of Iowa's Ingo Titze mounted a Siberian tiger larynx—the tiger had died of natural causes—on a lab bench and took CT scans of the resulting movements as air was pushed through the structure.
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Nothing, however, is as ailing as the screenplay (by the director, Victor Levin), which gives Frank the best lines — most of them in the trailer — and a nasty throat-clearing habit that sounds as if a nest of angry rattlesnakes has set up home in his larynx.
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Because the thyroid, a small gland in the neck behind the larynx, regulates energy production and metabolism throughout the body, including the heart, brain, skin, bowels and body temperature, too much or too little of its hormones can have a major impact on health and well-being.
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Honouring revolutionary heroes on the eve of this year's national day, Mr Xi remembered Zhang Zhixin, a party member executed in 1975 for speaking out against Mao-era excesses, though not before her larynx was cut to stop her calling to fellow inmates as she died.
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The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer considers all forms of asbestos carcinogenic to humans and has said the mineral causes cancers of the lung, larynx, and ovaries, as well as mesotheliomas, which are cancers that develop in the inner lining of tissue surrounding some organs.
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Add Auto-Tune to such a voice, manifest not in the goofy bleeps and trills that correct off-key singing, but rather with a thin layer of electronic film coating the larynx of a trained professional with perfect pitch, and you'd make her unstoppable, a tank.
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The results also showed that a smoking a pack of cigarettes a day led to an average 97 mutations in each cell in the larynx, 39 mutations for the pharynx, 23 for the mouth, 18 for the bladder, and six mutations in every cell of the liver each year.
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Sure this Dylan has "soul"—reservoirs of empathy and spiritual mojo the Dylan we know could only gesture at, cut with a deep seam of the sardonic skepticism that never leaves him alone and finished off with a range, texture, and definition beyond the capabilities of his aging larynx.
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Heavy drinkers face roughly five times the risk of mouth and throat cancers and squamous cell esophageal cancers than nondrinkers, nearly three times the risk of cancers of the voice box or larynx, double the risk of liver cancer, as well as increased risks for female breast cancer and colorectal cancer.
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A handy graphic from Los Alamos breaks it down for us:Image: Los Alamos National LaboratoryIf you smoke a pack a day for a year, you're giving yourself approximately 150 mutations per lung cell, 97 per larynx cell, 39 per pharynx cell, 6 per liver cell, 18 per bladder cell, and 23 per oral cavity cell.
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You can hear a grating demonstration of it here.) Here's where things gets weird (and also awesome): This phenomenon is also seen in Tuvan throat singing, where not only the vocal folds of the larynx vibrate, but so do a pair of tissue structures called ventricular folds – which aren't normally used for speaking or classical singing.
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Among these are the rowdy opener, "Hot Mess Disaster Boy" (with music by Adam Cochran); "The Future of Poetry Is Female" (based on an interview with the poet Ariana Reines), written and performed by Ms. Hart; and Joseph Keckler's "City," inspired by Wojnarowicz's Rimbaud-mask photographs, sung in a larynx-defying range of octaves by Mr. Keckler.
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The results, published online on Monday in the journal Depression and Anxiety, show the algorithm was able to narrow down the 40,500 speech characteristics of a group of patients — like the tension in the larynx and the timing in the flick in the tongue — to just 18 relevant indicators that together could be used to diagnose PTSD.
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Slow, unobtrusive (although sometimes quite crunchy) drum clicks and spare, heavy basslines frame a whizzing, impressionistic blur including but not limited to minimal splashes of keyboard loop and maximal blocks of keyboard gloss, grimy or whooshy or clinically antiseptic electronic texture as the case may be, and the disembodied ghost of Auto-Tune floating through the digital soundscape in search of a larynx to burrow into.
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Foreign body impacted in the larynxImages: Internet Archive Book Images/FlickrSimply talking about fireworks was enough to send a patient to the doctor back in 1892, according to NEJM:On the evening of October 10, 1892, J. R., an American, aged twenty-seven years, of alight physique and nervous temperament, sat at dinner, and while hurriedly swallowing his soup and at the same time eagerly discussing with his wife the best situation for viewing the Columbian fireworks, he drew into his larynx a piece of bone, which unhappily had been served him in his soup.
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