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Vocal organ   /vˈoʊkəl ˈɔrgən/   Listen
Vocal organ

noun
1.
Any of the organs involved in speech production.  Synonyms: organ of speech, speech organ.






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"Vocal organ" Quotes from Famous Books



... to all voices, is as unreasonable as to expect that the same medicament will apply to all maladies. In imparting a correct emission of voice, science has not infrequently to efface the results of a previous defective use, inherent or acquired, of the vocal organ. Hence, although the object to be attained is in every case the same, the modus operandi will vary infinitely. Nor should these most important branches of Classification and Production be entrusted—as is often ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

... This vocal organ was in itself a rich endowment; insomuch that a listener, comprehending nothing of the language in which the preacher spoke, might still have been swayed to and fro by the mere tone and cadence. Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, ...
— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne



Words linked to "Vocal organ" :   larynx, articulator, organ, glottis, voice box



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