adytus

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noun

Opening of the larynx.

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nounadytus (plural adytuses or adytus)

plural adytuses

  1. anatomyOpening of the larynx.

    These two continuants, voiceless and voiced, respectively, are actually made by lowering the epiglottis over the adytus (opening of the larynx) [...].

    1992, chapter 2, in The grammar of the Kabardian language, London: University of Calgary Press, →OCLC, page 11
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