How to Use laryngeal in a Sentence

laryngeal

adjective
  • The cause was laryngeal cancer, said his wife, Susan Walton.
    Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • My mom passed away from laryngeal cancer in November 2008.
    As Told To Stephanie Booth, Health.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • His daughter, Dora Luz, died at 44 from laryngeal cancer.
    Selene Rivera, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • The respiratory and laryngeal muscles can spasm as well, obstructing the passage of air and causing death.
    Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2015
  • Children with laryngeal diphtheria needed to have membranes removed from their vocal cords by laryngoscopy two or three times a day.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2010
  • One case of tonsil diphtheria and of case of laryngeal diphtheria were reported.
    NOLA.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • During development, the axons in the animal’s left vagus and recurrent laryngeal nerve must grow roughly twice as fast as its neck does.
    Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
  • No coincidence, Simonyan points out, that laryngeal dystonia is much more prevalent in women than in men.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 10 Feb. 2020
  • If laryngeal descent is necessary for human vowels, and vowels in turn for language, then chimpanzees would never talk.
    Louis-Jean Boë, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Bonar's dog was diagnosed with a tumor on her larynx — laryngeal rhabdomyosarcoma — in 2013.
    David Lazarus, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • For example, inducible laryngeal obstruction is a reversible and temporary narrowing of the larynx that can mimic the symptoms of asthma.
    Markham Heid, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
  • In all tetrapods—the group that includes the first land vertebrates and their descendants—the primary vocalizations in the larynx are controlled predominantly by the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
    Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Officials from Thailand’s Department of National Parks said that the main cause of the deaths was laryngeal paralysis, an upper respiratory condition that interferes with breathing.
    New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Per a statement, the animals’ primary cause of death was laryngeal paralysis, a respiratory disease that impairs sufferers’ breathing.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The cause was laryngeal cancer, said his wife, Susan Walton.
    Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • My mom passed away from laryngeal cancer in November 2008.
    As Told To Stephanie Booth, Health.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • His daughter, Dora Luz, died at 44 from laryngeal cancer.
    Selene Rivera, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • The respiratory and laryngeal muscles can spasm as well, obstructing the passage of air and causing death.
    Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2015
  • Children with laryngeal diphtheria needed to have membranes removed from their vocal cords by laryngoscopy two or three times a day.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2010
  • One case of tonsil diphtheria and of case of laryngeal diphtheria were reported.
    NOLA.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • During development, the axons in the animal’s left vagus and recurrent laryngeal nerve must grow roughly twice as fast as its neck does.
    Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
  • No coincidence, Simonyan points out, that laryngeal dystonia is much more prevalent in women than in men.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 10 Feb. 2020
  • If laryngeal descent is necessary for human vowels, and vowels in turn for language, then chimpanzees would never talk.
    Louis-Jean Boë, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Bonar's dog was diagnosed with a tumor on her larynx — laryngeal rhabdomyosarcoma — in 2013.
    David Lazarus, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • For example, inducible laryngeal obstruction is a reversible and temporary narrowing of the larynx that can mimic the symptoms of asthma.
    Markham Heid, Time, 21 Oct. 2022
  • In all tetrapods—the group that includes the first land vertebrates and their descendants—the primary vocalizations in the larynx are controlled predominantly by the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
    Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Officials from Thailand’s Department of National Parks said that the main cause of the deaths was laryngeal paralysis, an upper respiratory condition that interferes with breathing.
    New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Per a statement, the animals’ primary cause of death was laryngeal paralysis, a respiratory disease that impairs sufferers’ breathing.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2019

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