Often used to talk about diseases affecting the voice box.

Medical Condition

Describes problems involving voice production or throat discomfort.

Voice Problems

Used by healthcare professionals, not in everyday conversation.

Technical Term

Refers to sounds made by the vocal cords in the larynx during speech.

Speech Sounds

Used in language studies or when learning pronunciation details.

Linguistic Usage

The term is technical, mainly used by linguists and phoneticians, not in daily talk.

Not Common Vocabulary

 my throat. And to help me do that, I'd like to introduce to the stage a very specialist guest from the Queensland Voice Center, a man that's been in my mouth more times than I'd care to admit, a legend of the larynx, ENT doctor and laryngeal surgeon, Matthew Broadhurst.

What happens in your...

 and their large inflatable organs called laryngeal sacs. We don't know this for sure because it's essentially impossible to observe the internal organs of a living, singing whale, but we think that when a whale sings, muscular contractions in the throat and chest

Laryngeal