Anatomy
vocal cord Audio
vo·cal cords [ voh-kul kord ]
Subclass of:
glottis
Definitions related to vocal cord:
  • A pair of small bands of muscle that stretch from the thyroid cartilage in front to the arytenoid cartilage in back of the larynx. The vocal cords help prevent food entering the lungs and produce sound through vibration.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Fold of mucous membrane covering the vocalis muscle in the larynx.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • One of two small bands of muscle within the larynx that vibrates to produce the voice.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A pair of cone-shaped elastic mucous membrane projecting from the laryngeal wall and forming a narrow slit between them. Each contains a thickened free edge (vocal ligament) extending from the THYROID CARTILAGE to the ARYTENOID CARTILAGE, and a VOCAL MUSCLE that shortens or relaxes the vocal cord to control sound production.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (true vocal cord) The lower pair of vocal folds located below the glottis, which are the primary source of phonation
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Vocal cord, either of two folds of mucous membrane that extend across the interior cavity of the larynx and are primarily responsible for voice production. Sound is produced by the vibration of the folds in response to the passage between them of air exhaled from the lungs. The frequency of these...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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