The voice gap is a horizontal slit less than 25 mm long in the middle of the larynx, bounded by two vocal folds and (in the posterior portion) by the medial surfaces of the arytenoid cartilages, passes into the trachea.
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Anatomy of a Person's Voice Gap[/caption]With vibration of the vocal cords, its dimensions change. In the glottis, a front large compartment is distinguished between the ligaments themselves and called the inter-membranous part, the pars intermembrane, and the posterior smaller, located between the vocal processes, the vascularis process, the arytenoid cartilage is the interchrift part, the pars intercartilaginous.
To what doctors to address for examination of a Voice gap:
- Otolaryngologist
- ENT
What diseases are associated with the Voice Slit:
- Acute catarrhal laryngitis
- Infiltrative laryngitis
- Lining laryngitis (false croup)
- Larynx angina
- Laryngeal edema
- Chronic inflammatory diseases of the larynx
- Chronic catarrhal laryngitis
- Chronic hyperplastic laryngitis
- Chronic atrophic laryngitis
- Chondroperichondritis of the larynx
- Laryngeal burns
- Foreign bodies of the larynx
- Injuries of the larynx
- Chronic laryngeal stenosis
- Acute stenosis of the larynx
- Acute and chronic stenosis of the larynx