A pair of cone-shaped elastic mucous membrane projecting from the laryngeal wall and forming a narrow slit between them. Each contains a thickened free edge (vocal ligament) extending from the THYROID CARTILAGE to the ARYTENOID CARTILAGE, and a VOCAL MUSCLE that shortens or relaxes the vocal cord to control sound production.
    

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A case of cavernous papilloma of the vocal band / by Franklin H. Hooper.

Incrustations sur la lev̀re vocale / par le docteur Mandl.

The hygiene of the vocal organs : a practical handbook for singers and speakers / by Sir Morell Mackenzie.

Paralysies et polypes des cordes vocales / par Georges Barisien.

Primienenie fotografii k izucheniiu kolebanii golosovykh sviazok / N.P. Simanovskago ; pri sodieistvii d-ra L.E. Belliarminova ; iz fiziologicheskoi laboratorii prof. I.R. Tarkhanova.

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A case of cavernous papilloma of the vocal band / by Franklin H. Hooper.

Incrustations sur la lev̀re vocale / par le docteur Mandl.

The hygiene of the vocal organs : a practical handbook for singers and speakers / by Sir Morell Mackenzie.

Paralysies et polypes des cordes vocales / par Georges Barisien.

Primienenie fotografii k izucheniiu kolebanii golosovykh sviazok / N.P. Simanovskago ; pri sodieistvii d-ra L.E. Belliarminova ; iz fiziologicheskoi laboratorii prof. I.R. Tarkhanova.