Word: gullete
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surgery begins, the cellular engine may have already shrunk from starvation (for example, that caused by cancer of the gullet or stomach), from infection, or from the storage of excess water, as in the edema that goes with congestive heart failure. The faltering engine gradually loses its power to deliver blood-borne nutrients to the muscles. Then the most vulnerable points, said Dr. Moore, are in the diaphragm and the muscles between the ribs. And the effects are most severe on breathing and coughing. The cause of death in surgical patients, he said, is seldom found in the heart, brain...
With Lehrman's encouragement, Josh studied the ring dove, a small, brownish bird found only under domestication. A point of note about the male ring dove is that he inflates his esophagus (gullet) and bows when making his cooing sound before target females. Experts on animal behavior have assumed that the courting actions are all part of a single instinctive pattern fixed within the brain. When such a pattern is released, it must go through its full course-in this case, throat swelling, cooing and bowing...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories' transistorized, electronic larynx, for people who have had their voice boxes removed in surgery and have never mastered the difficult art of speaking with the gullet. Contoured to fit the hand and powered by tiny batteries, the artificial larynx is pressed against the flesh of the throat, transmits vibrations into the lower end of the vocal tract. These vibrations can be converted into voiced sounds of speech in a normal manner-by use of the tongue, teeth and lips. But because no flow of air is required, the user can speak with the electronic larynx while...