What is the voice box called?
The voice box is called the larynx. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a short, cartilage-framed tube at the top of the trachea.
What it is
- A short, cartilage-framed tube at the top of the trachea.
- Contains the vocal cords.
- Produces the voice and guards the airway during swallowing.
Where it is
- In the front of the neck, at the level of the fourth to sixth cervical vertebrae.
- Between the pharynx above and the trachea below.
- Its most prominent cartilage (thyroid cartilage) forms the 'Adam's apple'.
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