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The hiccup is one of medicine's remaining mysteries. Remedies include breathing into a paper bag, sipping cold water, gargling or biting a lemon.

When you hiccup, your diaphragm suddenly moves downward, forcing you to breathe in. In response, your glottis (the space between your vocal cords) quickly closes to stop more air from coming in.

A pilot should take a big deep breath, holding the air in their glottis, which is located in the throat, before the G-onset or acceleration occurs and then they begin the "air exchange." ...

Once it passed the vocal cords and the glottis, the coin got lodged in the subglottis, a small region between the vocal cords and the trachea. Luckily, when the boy arrived at the emergency ...

From the glottis to the lips, the whole tract where spoken language happens is just five or six inches long. Across evolutionary eons, a space for eating and breathing gradually took on linguistic ...

Of course the glottis and tongue would be forwards. The physiognomy of the reptile, with apparently dislocated jaws and swollen throat, as he passed a Chimæra to his internal laboratory ...

If an animal attempts to breathe it pure, there is spasmodic closure of the glottis and the animal dies as speedily as if strangled with a cord. It breathed,when diluted with 90 per cent ...

Speech production begins with airflow from the lungs through the windpipe, facilitated by the larynx or voice box, which acts ...

“Essentially, the brain initiates the purr, and then the muscles of the larynx and diaphragm oscillate back and forth, which causes a vibration to come out of the glottis (the opening between ...

1). Then, pass the lubricated end of the endotracheal tube through the glottis and into the trachea until the tip of the tube is midway between the larynx and thoracic inlet (Fig. 2). If the tube ...