31.   The only question is the health of his vocal chords.

32.   The material may be useful for restoring damaged vocal chords, augmenting urethra tissues to control incontinence, and even in solid form to build implants.

33.   The voice is as cranky as a New England winter, softened by a set of flannel vocal chords.

34.   There have been a dozen so far, mostly on his vocal chords, with more to follow soon.

35.   To preserve her strained vocal chords, Houston talks in a half-voice and sucks steadily on honey-licorice cough drops.

36.   Throughout the show, she acknowledged that her vocal chords had been sung ragged in recent days.

37.   And he almost burned out, too, requiring surgery to repair his vocal chords three years ago.

38.   But when soprano Natalie Dessay withdrew as Zerbinetta because of a strained vocal chord and was replaced by newcomer Lyubov Petrova, the taping was canceled.

39.   Clinton was making the trip two days after his doctors diagnosed edema of his vocal chords, essentially strain from talking too much.

40.   Grammy award winner Gilberto Gil has undergone surgery on a growth on his vocal chords.