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Screenings might include a medical professional feeling for lumps in the neck or swelling of the lymph nodes or voice box.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
Vocal sounds are produced as air from the lungs pushes through the larynx (voice box) in the throat, which contains vocal cords.
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 14 Sep. 2024
How Cannabis Use May Influence the Risk of Head and Neck Cancers
The study authors set out to clarify whether heavy cannabis use has any connection to the risk of head and neck cancers, which can develop in the mouth, nose, sinuses, salivary glands, throat, and larynx (voice box).
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 14 Aug. 2024
Your throat, or pharynx, is a tube that carries air to your windpipe and larynx (known as the voice box).
—Laura Schober, Health, 3 July 2024
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First Known Use
1835, in the meaning defined above
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“Voice box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voice%20box. Accessed 16 Dec. 2024.
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