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  2. Vocal cords - Wikipedia

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    In muscles, they cause a hypertrophy of striated muscles with a reduction in the fat cells in skeletal muscles, and a reduction in the whole body fatty mass. Androgens are the most important hormones responsible for the passage of the boy-child voice to adult male voice, and the change is irreversible without reconstructive surgery such as ...

  3. Vocal fry register - Wikipedia

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    In native speakers of American English, young women use vocal fry more frequently than men. When asked to read a passage, female speakers used vocal fry at a rate four times higher than male speakers. [12] Creaky voice is frequent in a number of languages, including Finnish, where it serves as a cue for phrase-boundaries and turn-taking. [13]

  4. Human voice - Wikipedia

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    The muscles of the larynx adjust the length and tension of the vocal folds to 'fine-tune' pitch and tone. The articulators (the parts of the vocal tract above the larynx consisting of tongue , palate , cheek , lips , etc.) articulate and filter the sound emanating from the larynx and to some degree can interact with the laryngeal airflow to ...

  5. Muscle cell - Wikipedia

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    The origin of true muscle cells is argued by other authors to be the endoderm portion of the mesoderm and the endoderm. However, Schmid & Seipel (2005) [30] counter skepticism – about whether the muscle cells found in ctenophores and cnidarians are "true" muscle cells – by considering that cnidarians develop through a medusa stage and polyp ...

  6. Muscular system - Wikipedia

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    Skeletal muscle, is a type of striated muscle, composed of muscle cells, called muscle fibers, which are in turn composed of myofibrils. Myofibrils are composed of sarcomeres, the basic building blocks of striated muscle tissue. Upon stimulation by an action potential, skeletal muscles perform a coordinated contraction by shortening each sarcomere.

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    “We have one woman in leadership, three women with powerful gavels, and at least another dozen who would be most capable of being an effective Speaker,” Julie Conway, who runs VIEW PAC — a ...

  9. Skeletal muscle - Wikipedia

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    Types of lymphoid cells (such as B-cells and T-cells) (3%) and myeloid cells such as macrophages (2%) made up most of the remaining mononuclear cells of skeletal muscle. [98] In addition, Cameron et al. [ 98 ] also identified two types of myocyte cells, Type I and Type II.