vocal folds

Also known as vocal cords, voice reeds

folds of throat tissues that help to create sounds through vocalization

AI overview

Your vocal folds are two small folds of tissue in your throat that vibrate to create the sounds you make when speaking or singing. They're essential to how you communicate because they generate the sound waves that form the basis of your voice.

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Research

14,775 papers

Endoscopic Thermography of Vocal Folds: A New Method.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2021Jahan A, Moghadam Salimi MDOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2019.12.020
Vocal Cord Disorders.ReviewPrimary care · 2025Pendergraph B, Cheng J, Alvarez C et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2024.09.013
Structure, Function and Insertion of the Human Vocal Folds.ReviewAdvances in oto-rhino-laryngology · 2020Paulsen F, Tillmann BDOI: 10.1159/000456678
Twin vocal folds as a novel evolutionary adaptation for vocal communications in lemurs.Scientific reports · 2024Nakamura K, Kanaya M, Matsushima D et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54172-z
Hyaluronic Acid Concentration in Female Vocal Folds With Reinke's Edema.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2022Lins CVM, Maciel Martins JR, Kobayashi EY et al.DOI: 10.1177/01945998211008914
Effects of False Vocal Folds on Intraglottal Velocity Fields.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2021Oren L, Khosla S, Farbos de Luzan C et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2020.02.001
Functional assessment of the ex vivo vocal folds through biomechanical testing: A review.ReviewMaterials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications · 2016Dion GR, Jeswani S, Roof S et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2016.04.018
Classifying Vocal Folds Fixation from Endoscopic Videos with Machine Learning.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2023Villani FP, Paderno A, Fiorentino MC et al.DOI: 10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340017

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Encyclopedic overview

Vocal folds (open) Vocal folds (speaking)

The vocal cords, also known as vocal folds, are folds of throat tissues that are key in creating sounds through vocalization. The length of the vocal cords affects the pitch of voice, similar to a stringed musical instrument. Open when breathing and vibrating for speech or singing, the folds are controlled via the recurrent laryngeal branch of the vagus nerve. They are composed of twin infoldings of mucous membrane stretched horizontally, from back to front, across the larynx. They vibrate, modulating the flow of air being expelled from the lungs during phonation.

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