Epiglottic vs Epiglottis - What's the difference?
epiglottic | epiglottis | Derived terms |
(anatomy) A cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea, and in Homo sapiens also a speech organ.
Epiglottis is a derived term of epiglottic.
In anatomy terms the difference between epiglottic and epiglottis
is that epiglottic is pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis while epiglottis is a cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea, and in Homo sapiens also a speech organ.As an adjective epiglottic
is pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.As a noun epiglottis is
a cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea, and in Homo sapiens also a speech organ.epiglottis
English
(wikipedia epiglottis)Noun
(en-noun)- My epiglottis is full of bees!