Word: larynx
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...Bessie Parello, then 47, became one of the 10,000 Americans a year who develop cancer of the voice box, or larynx. To remove the cancerous tissue, surgeons perform an operation called a laryngectomy on many of these patients. Because the surgery disrupts the windpipe, the surgeon must create a small hole in the throat for breathing. But talking is another matter. Some people can learn to gulp air through the mouth, force it down the esophagus, or gullet, instead of the windpipe, and literally burp it back up into a cavity called the pharynx, where a rough facsimile...
...Smoking increases the risk of peptic ulcers and cancer of the larynx, mouth, bladder and pancreas...
...three elements: one good, one bad, and one indifferent. The Pope, snow, and (predictably) sex were thrown out last week, and what ensued was this story about a nymphomaniac with hots (snow?) for the Pope. The nymph belts, from the top of her head and the bottom of her larynx...
Died. Quincy Howe, 76, author, editor and broadcaster whose Yankee twang was familiar to millions of CBS radio listeners during World War II; of cancer of the larynx; in Manhattan. After studying at Harvard and Cambridge, he worked for the Atlantic Monthly and Living Age magazines, later joined Simon & Schuster as chief book editor at the age of 34. His books on foreign affairs included a sardonic plea to keep the U.S. out of a European war (England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, 1937). His Anglophobia, however, was tempered after the U.S. joined the conflict. Following...
...grant a new larynx to Coach Bill Cleary...