epiglottic

Used alone, the term "vallecula" usually refers to the epiglottic vallecula.

Edge can be found by twanging the epiglottic funnel (e.g. sounding like a duck).

Only twanged vowels can be used as the twanged epiglottic funnel is a condition of Edge.

The specialist told him that Alysheba might be suffering from epiglottic entrapment - a swelling of a membrane at the back of the throat.

The epiglottic vallecula is a depression (vallecula) just behind the root of the tongue between the folds in the throat.

Necessary Twang - The area above the vocal cords forms a funnel, this is called the 'epiglottic funnel'.

When twanging, the opening of the epiglottic funnel is made smaller by bringing the arytenoid cartilages closer to the lower part of epiglottis (the petiole).

The laryngeal skeleton consists of nine cartilages: three single (epiglottic, thyroid and cricoid) and three paired (arytenoid, corniculate, and cuneiform).

The anterior wall consists of the base of the tongue and the epiglottic vallecula; the lateral wall is made up of the tonsil, tonsillar fossa, and tonsillar (faucial) pillars; the superior wall consists of the inferior surface of the soft palate and the uvula.

Of these (sensory) branches some are distributed to the epiglottis, the base of the tongue, and the epiglottic glands; others pass backward, in the aryepiglottic fold, to supply the mucous membrane surrounding the entrance of the larynx, and that lining the cavity of the larynx as low down as the vocal folds.