He continued to keep up the cuckoo sound, trying to laugh, and yet totally unable to accomplish even a cackle, as if some internal force clutched the diaphragm and mocked him, so that his efforts were reduced to a gurgling as in cynanchelike a dog choking with a rope round his craig, the sounds coming jerking out in barks, and dying away again in yelps and whines.

It lies behind the windpipe, pierces the diaphragm between the chest and abdomen, and opens into the stomach.

I was at first a little puzzled to know which screws held this diaphragm in its place, and, as I was very anxious not to unscrew the wrong ones, I took time to consider and found I need turn only two.

Note down this focal length, and proceed to measure your diaphragms in sixteenths of an inch.

Every telephone receiver and transmitter has a mouth-and ear-piece to receive or throw out the sound, a thin round sheet of lacquered metalcalled a diaphragm, and an electromagnet; together they reproduce human speech.

From this nerve center there is sent out to the nerves that supply the diaphragm and other muscles of breathing, a force which stimulates them to regular contraction.

"The chest," he says, "should be a passive agent; the larynx and mouth, aiding the diaphragm, alone have a right to act in breathing; the action of the larynx consists of a depression, that of the mouth should produce the canalization (concavity) of the tongue and the elevation of the veil of the palate.

When not in use the diaphragm should be taken off to relieve the strain on the rubber band.

"Did I understand you to say," inquired the lawyer, after he had animated his diaphragm with two glasses of sherry, "that this BLINKSOP is engaged to your cousin?