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How Well Does the Larynx “Canal” Match the Ear Canal?

While everybody is familiar with their ear canal, nobody is able to identify or give a reference in the literature to a “larynx canal”. For many years, a laryngeal airway above the vocal folds has been labeled the larynx tube (Sundberg, 1974), the epilaryngeal tube (Titze and Story, 1997), or simply the epilarynx (Story, 2016). The word canal, however, may be an excellent descriptor because the geometry is rather complex and only partially tube-like. Figure 1 is a comparison of the two canals. On the left is shown a Magnetic Resonance image of a mid-sagittal cross-section through the vocal tract airway (black is air, gray is tissue). On the right, a sketch of the outer and middle ear is shown. The two canals are highlighted with dashed boxes and their mean dimensions given below.