Luckily, "her vocal cords are not involved with the tumor, " according to her mother.
This tension spreads throughout the rest of their body until it ultimately reaches their vocal cords.
"Realistically, I can't see my vocal cords being ready till the summer, " said Michael.
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Yesterday, he said that was due to a rare problem with his vocal cords that required surgery.
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Orangutans, by comparison, had fewer "vibration regimes" - meaning they could get fewer tones from their vocal cords.
Bilateral paralysis is much less common than unilateral paralysis of the vocal cords.
The former two pack a day smoker says cigarettes didn't affect her vocal cords and neither did six husbands.
In more severe cases, the gap between the vocal cords is too large to be closed with an implant alone.
In 2011, James Driver was felled by an episode of temporary paralysis that left one of his vocal cords frozen.
Locals say that they also cut out the vocal cords of a singer who had warbled improvised anti-regime ditties in previous weeks.
An EMG can also be used to measure the strength of the neuromuscular signal from the brain to the muscle that controls the vocal cords.
It was a situation where I knew I had to do a second album, but something that kind of got a little scary--I bruised my vocal cords.
Mr. Page's condition of vocal cord paralysis is caused when one or both of the vocal cords don't open and close correctly, resulting in difficulty speaking or breathing.
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The narrator seems to be a veteran of war, and Waits gives the song his stereotypical Waits treatment, singing as though he had no vocal cords but plenty of nodes.
The cancer had not spread beyond the thyroid, and, in eighty-six minutes, we removed the fleshy, butterfly-shaped organ, carefully detaching it from the trachea and from the nerves to the vocal cords.
The main issue is that after surgery, the diameter of the airway is actually smaller as the relaxed position of the vocal cords prevent the passage of less breath than before the procedure.
Her latest album follows a four-year break, during which she had surgery to remove polyps on her vocal cords and considered dropping music and instead going to culinary school or becoming a yoga instructor.
On direct examination through the scope, an ENT surgeon (otolaryngologist) can visualize the vocal cords to observe for decreased motion of one or both of the cords as a patient makes certain phonations or sounds.
In the procedure, called injection augmentation of the vocal folds, a doctor threads an endoscope through the patient's nose or mouth into the throat, then injects a tiny amount of collagen, fat, hyaluronic acid or a gel filler into the vocal cords to plump them up.
Seth Cohen, a laryngologist and associate professor at the Duke University Voice Care Center, said Mr. Page could have wide range of ailments including acute laryngitis, which is a viral infection that causes inflammation of the vocal cords and requires resting one's voice for at least week or two.
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