voice box

the larynx.

Origin of voice box

First recorded in 1910–15

If we eat or drink too fast the voice-box will not have time to close its little door and prevent our being choked.

First Book in Physiology and Hygiene |J.H. Kellogg
Through the opening behind this curtain the air passes down into the voice-box and then into the lungs.

First Book in Physiology and Hygiene |J.H. Kellogg
Outstanding differences are the normal fore legs, the development of a voice-box in the male, and an ovipositor in the female.

Garden Pests in New Zealand |D. Miller
The air passing through the voice-box strikes against the vocal cords, the tension of which can be varied by the muscles.

Elementary Zoology, Second Edition |Vernon L. Kellogg

The cover of the voice-box closes whenever we swallow anything.

First Book in Physiology and Hygiene |J.H. Kellogg

voice box

another word for the larynx Related adjective: laryngeal

Also called: talkbox an electronic guitar attachment with a tube into the player's mouth to modulate the sound vocally

voice box

[ vois ]

See larynx.