Larynx anatomy

Also known as: voice box, vocal cords

The voice box: a cartilage frame with the vocal ligaments, guarding the airway and producing sound.

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3D model of the Larynx in the Anatomy Nexus anatomy atlas — Interactive 3D model: Larynx. Orbit, zoom and click the structures.Load the 3D model

Overview page. A full anatomy article for the larynx has not been written yet; below are the modelled structures, the system it belongs to and every clinical topic that mentions it.

Structures in the atlas 40

The modelled pieces that make up the larynx in the 3D atlas. Each opens in the explorer.

The respiratory in brief

Air enters through the nose, where cartilages support the nostrils and conchae warm and moisten it, passes the larynx, which guards the airway and produces the voice, and descends the trachea. The trachea divides into the main bronchi, which branch again and again into the segmental bronchial trees modelled here, one for each bronchopulmonary segment. Gas exchange takes place in the alveoli at the end of this tree; the lung tissue itself is not a separate piece in this dataset, so the bronchial trees stand in for the lungs.

All structures of the respiratory