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laryngeal

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  • a  of or relating to or situated in the larynx
    laryngeal infection

  • Around midnight, Navarro-Valls, who is a medical doctor, confirmed that there were complications to the flu and the pope had suffered acute laryngeal tracheitis and experienced a .
  • He took special pains not to damage Mary's laryngeal nerves, which might cause her to choke to death, nor her parathyroid glands, which might throw her into spasms.
  • Many early cases of laryngeal cancer can be cured without the necessity for laryngectomy, and with the retention of a more or less normal voice.
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  • Richard Dawkins in Beliefnet.com
    As Dawkins writes in The Greatest Show on Earth, regarding the extravagantly lengthy and circuitous recurrent laryngeal nerve of the giraffe, "Any intelligent designer would have hived off the laryngeal nerve on its way down, replacing a journey of...

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