Labels:daily | hakham | web site OCR: LARYNX HE LARYNX, or voice box cm (2 inches) long. and connects your throat to your windpipe. It is made up of nine pieces of cartilage a tough flexible material), held together bi muscles and inflexible ligaments. Your larynx has two main functions: keeping your airway open, except when you swallow; and enabling you to talk and sing Two vocal cords stretched across your larynx are moved and pulled by your larygeal muscles, producing various sounds as air flows over them. airw allow
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