An archaic or dialectal term, possibly referring to a throat sound or the glottis itself in older medical texts.
Possibly from Old English or Middle English origins related to throat sounds; may be connected to 'glottal' or represent a historical term used before modern anatomical nomenclature was standardized.
This word appears in medieval medical manuscripts where doctors tried to describe the voice box before they had microscopes—it shows how people understood their own bodies centuries ago!
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