Syrinx

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A set of panpipes.

   “Pipes will I fashion of the syrinx flag, / That thou mayst always know whither I roam, / When it shall please thee in our quiet home / To listen and think of love.”

2. isim Chiefly in the plural: a narrow channel cut in rock, especially in Ancient Egyptian burial chambers.

   “Further the Ramesseion (the Osmandyeion of the Descript.) with the alley of sphinxes, the Menephtheion (palace at Kurnah) and other monuments as late as Ptolemy the First's time. Grottoes and syrinxes all around.”

3. isim Any of several abnormal tube-shaped structures in the body, especially a rare, fluid-filled neuroglial cavity in the brain stem or within the spinal cord.

   “The division of fluid-filled cavities, or syrinxes, into those lined with ependyma (hydromyelia) and those not so lined (syringomyelia) is probably somewhat artificial.”

4. isim The voice organ in birds, located at or near where the trachea and the bronchi join.

   “The role of the syrinx in psittacine sound production is still under examination, and probably differs from that of songbirds. […] For species with relatively simple syringes but complex vocal behavior (such as Grey parrots), these data imply that other structures must modify syringeal output.”

5. özel isim An Arcadian nymph, changed into a reed