Word: larynxes
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...devoted to the stage, movies and TV. Then, while touring with the road company of The Best Man two years ago, playing the role of an ex-President who dies of cancer, Gargan himself began to complain of a continually sore throat. Doctors discovered he had cancer of the larynx. His voice box was removed, and what was left of his windpipe now ends at a collar-button-level hole in his neck. When he left the hospital, he was speechless. But last week, like the others at the Memphis dinner, Gargan was talking once more-using esophageal speech...
Swallowing Air. In natural speech, air from the lungs is exhaled through the windpipe (trachea), past the "vocal cords" (membranes of the larynx). If these membranes are tensed and vibrated, a tone is produced. That tone and its timbre are modified by the tongue, teeth and lips to make the different sounds of speech. In the laryngectomee, the exhaled air escapes through the hole in his neck (tracheostomy) where his Adam's apple used to be. But air can also be swallowed through the gullet (esophagus) and burped back again. And the swallowing muscles...
Since cancer of the larynx is curable with early diagnosis and modern surgery in 60% of cases, and 2,000 patients are operated on every year, the number of U.S. laryngectomees is growing fast-so fast, in fact, that the American Cancer Society, which sponsors the I.A.L., has trouble finding enough therapists to train the recovered patients, who like to call themselves "The Lost Chords." The danger is that they will become just that, and permanently, if they are allowed to wallow in their early discouragement...
...Cram her larynx, lung, and liver...
...Robert J. Huebner, head of PHS's laboratory for infectious diseases, said: "We have to define the problem as 'acute respiratory disease, upper and lower.' The 'upper' refers to disease at the level of the larynx or above, such as laryngitis, nasal pharyngitis and simple rhinitis. 'Lower' covers tracheitis, bronchitis and pneumonitis. Then we have to identify them further as mild, moderate or severe, and as with fever or without...