Usually means: Flap covering trachea during swallowing.
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  1. epiglottis: Merriam-Webster
  2. epiglottis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epiglottis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epiglottis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epiglottis: Vocabulary.com
  6. epiglottis: Wordnik
  7. epiglottis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Epiglottis, Epiglottis, Epiglottis: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. epiglottis: Wiktionary
  10. epiglottis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. epiglottis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. epiglottis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. epiglottis: Dictionary.com
  14. epiglottis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Epiglottis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Epiglottis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. epiglottis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. epiglottis: Rhymezone
  19. Epiglottis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. epiglottis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. epiglottis: FreeDictionary.org
  22. epiglottis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. epiglottis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. epiglottis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epiglottis: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epiglottis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. epiglottis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Epiglottis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Epiglottis: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Epiglottis: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  10. epiglottis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. epiglottis: Medical dictionary
  12. Epiglottis: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epiglottis: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See epiglottides as well.)

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noun:  (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.

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