larynx

A continuation of the pharynx that is involved in breathing, sound production, and protecting the trachea against food aspiration. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the larynx is

A continuation of the pharynx that is involved in breathing, sound production, and protecting the trachea against food aspiration. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the larynx is

It sits within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the larynx connects to

The atlas records 32 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of respiratory tract.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: recurrent laryngeal nerve, accessory XI nerve and superior laryngeal nerve.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001737, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: respiratory tract.
• A kind of: proximo-distal subdivision of respiratory tract.
• contains: apex of arytenoid, aryepiglottic fold, base of arytenoid, corniculate cartilage, cuneiform cartilage and fibroelastic membrane of larynx, and 16 more.
• contributes to morphology of: respiratory system, glottis and muscle of larynx.
• Innervated by: recurrent laryngeal nerve, accessory XI nerve and superior laryngeal nerve.
• flows to: trachea and chordate pharynx.

Questions

Where is the larynx?

It sits within the respiratory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the larynx connect to?

Part of: respiratory tract.

Is the larynx the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.