Mammy, the trouble is in your thorax, larynx and epiglottis.
They are more covered by the epiglottis than in the other case—that of a female (Fig. 41).
The epiglottis may, also, naturally so overhang the glottis that a good view of the vocal cords is impossible.
The internal surface of the glottis and epiglottis was in a similar but less marked state as the larynx and trachea.
To the cartilages of the larynx must be further added the epiglottis, with the little cartilage at the centre of its inner side.
Occasionally oedema takes place in the epiglottis and upper margin of the larynx.
It may discharge into the epiglotto-pharyngeal fold, and thence reach and distend the epiglottis.
Initial sores have been seen upon the tonsils, palatine folds, pharynx, and even the epiglottis.
Then the food passes over the epiglottis, you recollect, down the gullet to the stomach.
epiglottis, ep-i-glot′is, n. the cartilage at the root of the tongue that partly closes the aperture of the larynx.
epiglottis ep·i·glot·tis (ěp'ĭ-glŏt'ĭs)
n. pl. ep·i·glot·tis·es or ep·i·glot·ti·des (-glŏt'ĭ-dēz')
The thin elastic cartilaginous structure located at the root of the tongue that folds over the glottis to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea during the act of swallowing.
