Note Return to text — II PHYSIOLOGICAL VIEW FORMATION OF SOUND BY THE ORGAN OF THE HUMAN VOICE

For anatomical investigations the male larynx is commonly used, its muscles being more powerful and its cartilages firmer than in the female larynx, and this explains why anatomists in Germany have been reluctant to admit the existence of the cuneiform cartilages. It was, therefore, a great satisfaction to me to find them described under the name of cuneiform cartilages in Wilson’s Human Anatomy, with the remark that they are sometimes wanting. 4