Word: larynxes
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...safe as they imagine. According to the report, which details hundreds of studies on millions of smokers and nonsmokers, cigarette smokers are at least 20 times as likely to die of lung cancer as nonsmokers, and six to ten times as likely to die of cancer of the larynx. They are also more susceptible to peptic ulcers, the delivery of stillborn babies and cancer of the urinary tract...
Bedtime Story. The Klein "speech rectifier" includes a tiny microphone that is worn over the larynx. Activated by the wearer's voice, the mike turns on a pocket-size generator that transmits the sound of gently rushing water to receivers plugged into the ears. While he is speaking, the wearer hears the waterfall, which muffles the full range of his voice. As soon as he stops speaking, the device automatically turns...
Lemon Sky is an indifferent sample of the genre, possibly because it comes mainly from Playwright Lanford Wilson's larynx. His hero, Alan, is a compulsive monologist who alternates between flip quips and narcissistic arias of self-pity. The interspersing of frequent asides and stream-of-consciousness speeches creates the undramatic effect of a man too busy commenting on his life to live it. As Alan, Christopher Walken handles these technical devices with an admirable fluidity, and makes the boy more humanly vulnerable than his words. In the hiss-the-father department, Charles Durning fashions an equally well-shaded...
...larynx, also from an unnamed donor, was transplanted in a four-hour operation. To what extent Kluyskens tried to attach the recipient's laryngeal nerves to those in the graft, or to what extent he succeeded, was unclear. On this depends the ability of the larynx to function more or less like Borremans' own. Last week one of his doctors described Borremans' breathing as perfect, and added: "His voice already exists." He was still being fed artificially...
Some U.S. physicians questioned whether the larynx transplant was ethical. It exposed Borremans to additional surgical hazards, not to mention the perils of immunosuppressive drugs. All that was necessary, in their view, was a simple laryngectomy...