How to Use laryngeal in a Sentence

laryngeal

adjective
  • First Frank, from laryngeal cancer.
    — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Plus, daily users are more at risk for certain cancers, including head, neck, and laryngeal cancers.
    — Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • 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
  • The disorder, also known as laryngeal dystonia, hits women more often than men.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The respiratory and laryngeal muscles can spasm as well, obstructing the passage of air and causing death.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2015
  • No coincidence, Simonyan points out, that laryngeal dystonia is much more prevalent in women than in men.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 10 Feb. 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
  • Kennedy has spasmodic dysphonia, also called laryngeal dystonia, a condition that strains his speech.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Asbestos can cause several types of cancer, including mesothelioma and lung, laryngeal and ovarian cancer.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • However, drinking more than one cup of tea per day was associated with a higher risk of laryngeal cancer, which affects the voice box, by 38 percent.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Kennedy’s speech often sounds strained and broken from a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, also called laryngeal dystonia.
    — Will Carless, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Bonar's dog was diagnosed with a tumor on her larynx — laryngeal rhabdomyosarcoma — in 2013.
    — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The rate of oral cancer among people in this group was more than double that of the control group, while the rate of oropharyngeal cancers was almost five times as high, and the rate of laryngeal cancers was more than eight as high.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Generally, asbestos is known to cause lung cancer, mesothelioma, ovarian cancer, and laryngeal cancer.
    — ArsTechnica, 17 June 2025
  • People who are exposed to asbestos can develop lung cancer, mesothelioma, ovarian cancer and laryngeal cancer, studies show.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • There is much to learn from the laryngeal descent theory, to the arguments made for neurological and intelligence-based speech development.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • With his wife also urging him to get his recurrent sore throat checked, Theakston consulted a specialist and was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer, a rare disease that attacked his voice box.
    — Caroline Frost, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The toxic chemical has been linked to lung cancer, ovarian cancer, laryngeal cancer, and mesothelioma, a cancer that develops in the lining of some internal organs.
    — Michael Regan, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • Spasmodic dysphonia, also known as laryngeal dystonia, is a neurological speech disorder that impacts the ability to speak and control the voice.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • While other animals such as rats and mice are also known to have laryngeal whistles, the study says that horses are believed to be the only animals known to combine the whistle with vocal fold vibrations to create a single, dual sound call.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The review concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support a link between moderate drinking and oral cavity, pharyngeal, esophageal, and laryngeal cancers.
    — Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Spasmodic dysphonia, now referred to as laryngeal dystonia, is a rare neurological condition affecting the vocal cords.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Those sensors detect the subtle vibrations that are transmitted to the extrinsic laryngeal muscles (in the neck) from other anatomical locations including the velum, oropharynx, tongue, and epiglottis.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The American Cancer Society actually links low consumption of fruits and vegetables to nearly one-third of mouth, throat, esophageal and laryngeal cancers.
    — Gene Baur, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Typically, putting a patient on a mechanical ventilator requires the insertion of a laryngeal mask, endotracheal tube, or tracheostomy.
    — Ravinder Dahiya, IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2020

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