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OCR: VOCAL CORDS OUR VOCAL CORDS are two fibrous sheets of tissue in the lining of your voice box. or larynx. While breathing normally, your vocal cords are wide apart, forming V-shaped opening, called the glottis, through which air passes. To ma ke sounds, the larynx muscles pull your vocal cords together which then vibrate as air passes over them Your vocal cords are supported by ligaments (bundles fibrous tissue), which run from the front to the back of your larynx. The ligaments bind the vocal cords to the thyroid cartilage, or Adam apple VOCAI lary