vocal cord

English

Noun

vocal cord (plural vocal cords)

1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) Either of two pairs of folds of mucous membrane stretched horizontally across the human larynx whose vibrations help to produce the voice.

   Synonyms: vocal band, vocal fold, plica vocalis

Derived terms

• false vocal cord
• true vocal cord

Translations

folds of mucous membrane

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 聲帶／声带 (seng¹ daai³)

  Hokkien: 聲帶／声带 (zh-min-nan) (siaⁿ-tòa)

  Mandarin: 聲帶／声带 (zh) (shēngdài)

• Czech: hlasivka (cs) f
• Danish: stemmebånd n
• Dutch: stemband (nl) m
• Esperanto: voĉkordo
• Finnish: äänihuuli (fi)
• French: corde vocale (fr) f
• German: Stimmband (de) n
• Greenlandic: nipiliuut
• Hungarian: hangszál (hu)
• Italian: corda vocale (it) f
• Japanese: 声帯 (ja) (せいたい, seitai)
• Korean: 성대(聲帶) (ko) (seongdae)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dengejê f

• Latvian: balss saite f
• Norwegian: stämmebånd n

  Nynorsk: stämmeband n, røsteband n, røstband n

• Polish: struna głosowa (pl) f, więzadło głosowe (pl) n
• Portuguese: corda vocal f
• Romanian: coardă vocală (ro) f
• Russian: голосова́я свя́зка f (golosovája svjázka)
• Spanish: cuerda vocal f
• Swahili: nyuzisauti
• Swedish: stämband (sv) n, stämläpp c, stämläppe c
• Thai: เส้นเสียง (sêen-sǐiang)
• Turkish: ses teli (tr)

See also

• glottis
• vocal fold
• vocal ligament