The mouth is clean, the gums are healed, and there is no longer anything offensive about the dog.
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The Larynx
is placed at the top of the windpipe, the exit from the lungs, and is also connected with the Schneiderian membrane. At its upper part is the
epiglottis
, the main guard against the passage of the food into the respiratory tubes, and, at the same time, of the instrument of the voice. It consists of five cartilages united together by a ligamentous substance, and, by distinct and perfect articulations, adapting itself to every change of the respiratory process and the production of the voice.
At the base is the
cricoid cartilage