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class="infobox-caption">Arytenoid cartilage</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Glottis_positions.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Glottis_positions.png/250px-Glottis_positions.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Glottis_positions.png/375px-Glottis_positions.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Glottis_positions.png/500px-Glottis_positions.png 2x" data-file-width="2279" data-file-height="429" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Glottis positions</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Identifiers</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Medical_Subject_Headings" title="Medical Subject Headings">MeSH</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D005931">D005931</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Terminologia_Anatomica" title="Terminologia Anatomica">TA98</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ifaa.unifr.ch/Public/EntryPage/TA98%20Tree/Entity%20TA98%20EN/06.2.09.012%20Entity%20TA98%20EN.htm">A06.2.09.012</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Terminologia_Anatomica" title="Terminologia Anatomica">TA2</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ta2viewer.openanatomy.org/?id=3197">3197</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Foundational_Model_of_Anatomy" title="Foundational Model of Anatomy">FMA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/FMA/?p=classes&conceptid=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fsig%2Font%2Ffma%2Ffma55414">55414</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><a href="/wiki/Anatomical_terminology" title="Anatomical terminology">Anatomical terminology</a><div style="text-align: right;"><small class="noprint">[<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q374418" class="extiw" title="d:Q374418">edit on Wikidata</a>]</small></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>glottis</b> (<abbr title="plural form">pl.</abbr>: <b>glottises</b> or <b>glottides</b>) is the opening between the <a href="/wiki/Vocal_folds" class="mw-redirect" title="Vocal folds">vocal folds</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (the <a href="/wiki/Rima_glottidis" title="Rima glottidis">rima glottidis</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The glottis is crucial in producing sound from the vocal folds. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Glottis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From Ancient Greek <i>γλωττίς</i> (glōttís), derived from <i>γλῶττα</i> (glôtta), variant of <i>γλῶσσα</i> (glôssa, "tongue").<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Function">Function</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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together is called <i>glottal</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> English has a <a href="/wiki/Voiceless_glottal_fricative" title="Voiceless glottal fricative">voiceless glottal transition</a> spelled "h". This sound is produced by keeping the vocal folds spread somewhat, resulting in non-turbulent airflow through the glottis.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In many accents of English the <a href="/wiki/Glottal_stop" title="Glottal stop">glottal stop</a> (made by pressing the folds together) is used as a variant <a href="/wiki/Allophone" title="Allophone">allophone</a> of the phoneme <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/t/</span> (and in some dialects, occasionally of <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/k/</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/p/</span>); in some languages, this sound is a <a href="/wiki/Phoneme" title="Phoneme">phoneme</a> of its own. </p><p>Skilled players of the Australian <a href="/wiki/Didgeridoo" title="Didgeridoo">didgeridoo</a> restrict their glottal opening in order to produce the full range of <a href="/wiki/Timbre" title="Timbre">timbres</a> available on the instrument.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The vibration produced is an essential component of <i>voiced</i> <a href="/wiki/Consonant" title="Consonant">consonants</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/Vowel" title="Vowel">vowels</a>. 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