Laryngeal Biomechanics

by Robert J. Demarest and B. Raymond Fink

For its size, the larynx is the most complex and versatile mechanical device in the body. In this remarkable book, a distinguished medical illustrator and a world authority on laryngeal biomechanics collaborate to provide both an atlas and a treatise on the behavior of the larynx. In separate chapters, the authors consider the functions of the larynx--as safeguard for the free passage of air, to protect the airway from invasion, as a plug that resists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674510852
• ISBN13: 9780674510852
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.