Epiglottis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EPIGLOTTIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a cartilaginous flap over the glottis
• a flap of cartilage behind the root of the tongue, which is depressed during swallowing to cover the opening of the windpipe.
• A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.
• a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a thin plate of flexible cartilage in front of the glottis that folds back over and protects the glottis during swallowing

Words related to EPIGLOTTIS

epiglottal13 epiglottic15 epiglottides16 epiglottises15

Words that contain EPIGLOTTIS

epiglottises15

How to use EPIGLOTTIS in a sentence

• Chest, diaphragm, the closed epiglottis, and the raised palate all form a supply chamber for the breath.
• We can judge whether the epiglottis springs up quickly enough if the breath comes out in a full enough stream to give the tone the necessary resonance.
• THE EPIGLOTTIS The epiglottis is the valve which closes over the upper opening of the larynx.
• Failure to expose the epiglottis is usually due to too great haste to enter the speculum all the way down.
• Following the removal of the epiglottis there is rarely complaint of food entering the larynx.
• If amputation of the epiglottis will give a sufficiently wide removal, this may be done en masse with a heavy snare, and has resulted in complete cure.
• Ulceration limited to the epiglottis may justify amputation of the projecting portion or excision of only the ulcerated area.
• Amputation of the epiglottis is, however, not to be done if ulceration in other portions of the larynx coexist.
• The epiglottis will be found long and tapering, its lateral margins rolled backward so as to meet and form a cylinder above.
• The epiglottis may, also, naturally so overhang the glottis that a good view of the vocal cords is impossible.
• Nobody knows just how or when the grip germs break into the system, but once they get a foothold in the epiglottis nothing can remove them except inward applications of dynamite.

Similar words containing GLOTTI without suffix s and without prefix epi

glottic10 glottis8 diglottic13 glottides11 glottises10 epiglottic15 glottidean12 isoglottic13 proglottic15 proglottid14 proglottis13 polyglottic19 proglottids15 epiglottides16 epiglottises15 polyglottism20 proglottides16 polyglottisms21 proglottidean17

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