News tagged with vocal cords
Screaming Hoops Fans at Risk for Vocal Problems
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the ACC tourney gearing up and March Madness getting in full swing, basketball fans are topping decibel charts with their verbal support for their favorite college team.
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Vocal cord dysfunction may be caused by work
Sep 06, 2007 |
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Researchers from the UAB and the Vall d'Hebron Hospital have diagnosed two patients affected with vocal cord dysfunction, which causes coughing and difficulty in breathing due to irritating agents that are breathed in at ...
Corticosteroid injections may be helpful to manage vocal fold polyps without surgery
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Corticosteroid injections appear to offer an alternative to surgery for treating polyps on the vocal cords, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
MGH researchers report successful new laser treatment for vocal-cord cancer
May 06, 2008 |
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An innovative laser treatment for early vocal-cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), successfully restores patients’ voices without radiotherapy or traditional surgery, which can permanently damage ...
Why the swamp sparrow is hitting the high notes
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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Birdsongs are used extensively as models for animal signaling and human speech, offering a glimpse of how our own communicating abilities developed. A new study by Adrienne DuBois, a graduate student at the ...
Jet engines help solve the mysteries of the voice
Mar 13, 2007 |
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Although scientists know about basic voice production—the two "vocal folds" in the larynx vibrate and pulsate airflow from the lungs—the larynx is one of the body's least understood organs.
Songbirds' elaborate cries for food show first signs of vocal learning
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Only a handful of social animals -- songbirds, some marine mammals, some bats and humans -- learn to actively style their vocal communications. Babies, for instance, start by babbling, their first chance ...
A mechanical model of vocalization
Nov 23, 2009 |
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When people speak, sing, or shout, they produce sound by pushing air over their vocal folds -- bits of muscle and tissue that manipulate the air flow and vibrate within it. When someone has polyps or some other problem with ...
National guideline released for the treatment of hoarseness
Sep 01, 2009 |
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The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) will issue the first--and only--national clinical practice guideline to help healthcare practitioners identify and manage patients with ...
Frogs: Female choice for complex calls led to evolution of unusual male vocal cord
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May 03, 2006 |
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Male tropical túngara frogs have evolved masses on their vocal cords that help them woo females with complex calls, show scientists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama.
Vocal box holds key to ancient instrument
Jul 07, 2005 |
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Australian researchers have discovered the secret of the ancient art of playing the didgeridoo lies in the voice box.
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