epiglottis

• Zora asked, shedding some epiglottis, as she tended to do when expressing herself with some force. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
• Charlotte's epiglottis, muscles, spleen, and now her liver are involved. —  TV Fodder
• At the same time, the air passage to your lungs is closed off by a little flap of tissue called the epiglottis.
• The process might now have been at once completed, had I not feared that the epiglottis might be implicated in the disease, which extended beyond the reach of my finger, and thus suffer injury from the knife if used without a guide. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• To this last statement the thyroid and cricoid cartilages and the epiglottis are exceptions, being single Of the epiglottis_, a flexible cartilage, it is necessary to say little, as its function in voice-production, if it have any, has never been determined. —  Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)

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